Research Guides: TSL500 Research Guide: Library Databases

Quick Demo: TESOL Research in ODU Library's Databases

What's the difference between this website, the TESOL 500 Course Research Guide, and its sister site, the more general TESOL Research Guide, referenced in the video above?

The TESOL Research Guide is more general than this one, with more resources and fewer tutorials and tips.. It is not necessary for this course, but you can use this Research Guide you are at now or that one to access the resources you need to do secondary research in TESOL.

This TESOL 500 Library Course Research Guide, however, gives you all of the tutorials, tips, & guides for this course and the foundation of your learning how to do TESOL secondary research.

The Top 3 Databases for your Research

Watch the video on this page and then try your own searches in these databases, each of which covers a different set of journals & other documents.

Education Full Text
Comprehensive coverage of an international range of English-language periodicals, monographs and yearbooks.
Education Research Complete
A bibliographic and full-text database covering scholarly research and information relating to all areas of education.
ERIC
Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) provides access to documents & articles & book reviews from magazines & scholarly journals.
This subscription database also has a public version. See our "Public Databases" tab above.
OhioLINK Electronic Journal Center (EJC)
Includes the full text of articles from more than 7000 online scholarly research journals covering many subject areas. If you see a link in any other database that says "Full Text via OhioLINK EJC" and the link doesn't work, you can go here and search for that full-text article.

Depending on your topic, you may want to add a few other databases to your search.

Additional databases are available. Visit our Education databases page.

Or choose other databases from the Library's Databases page.

And don't forget that there are public databases too! Click on the tab above.

You can use these free search engines & databases that are free & open to the public even after you graduate!

ERIC Education Resources Information Center
Public version of our ERIC database. From the Institute of Education Sciences.
Google Scholar
This specialized search engine can be used as a supplement to find additional scholarly articles. View this video tutorial on how to use Scholar.
OhioLINK's Education Databases by EBSCO
The education databases you use here are also available from the State Library of Ohio (SLO) to be used on site (sorry, not available off site) to anyone in Ohio with a SLO library card.
UNESCO/OECD/EUROSTAT (UOE) Education Database
Statistics database providing global enrollment, teacher-student ratio, & other data.