Subject Guides: Library and Information Science: Other core resources

Other Core Databases

Academic Search Elite
Covers over 3,100 scholarly journals and other resources, and provides full-text for over 1,000 journals.

ACM Digital Library
Full-text articles in periodicals published by the Association for Computing Machinery. Good coverage of many topics in information science, including societal issues.

Education Source
Education Source is designed to meet the needs of education students, professionals and policy makers. Coverage in Education Source spans all levels of education from early childhood to higher education and also includes educational specialties such as multilingual education, health education and testing.

ERIC
A comprehensive index to articles in education and related fields, including good coverage of school and public librarianship. However, ERIC no longer covers as many library-related journals as it did in the past.
ERIC (Proquest version )
ERIC (EBSCOhost version)
ERIC Collection (Government version)

IEEExplore
Full-text articles in periodicals published by the IEEE, a leading association in the field of electronic and information technology.

LexisNexis Academic
Provides access to a wide range of news, business, legal research, medical and reference information. The news section provides access to full text of newspapers from the U.S., Europe, Africa, North and South America and Australia in English, as well as some in Dutch, French, German, Italian and Spanish; news wires, television and radio transcripts are also available. Good for very current topics.

Scopus
Scopus is the largest abstract and citation database, including peer-reviewed titles from international publishers, Open Access journals, conference proceedings, trade publications, and quality web sources.