We have thousands of journals and databases selected by your Schools to support teaching and research. There are so many, that it can be difficult to know which ones are the best to use, so we have grouped them together for you! Use the 'everything' search in Library Search to find articles, conference papers, journals and more, or Browzine to browse the e-journal titles in your subject.
Key Databases and eJournal Collections
Below is a list of key databases and eJournal collections in your subject. They will either provide you with the full text of the journal or they will give you the bibliographic details of an article. If we have access to this item on another one of our subscriptions you will see the 'find@newcastle' option next to the item. Follow this link to find out if we have the full text available.
- British Education Index (EBSCO) This link opens in a new windowBritish education Index (BEI) indexes education journals from 1975 onwards.
- Child Development & Adolescent Studies (EBSCO) This link opens in a new windowChild Development & Adolescent Studies is today’s source for references to the current and historical literature related to growth and development of children through the age of 21. Book reviews and abstracts from hundreds of journals and a bibliography of thousands of technical reports, books, book chapters, theses and dissertations covering biomedical and social sciences worldwide are indexed.
- Education Abstracts (EBSCO) This link opens in a new windowCovers periodicals, books and yearbooks for a wide range of subject areas including adult education, comparative education, government funding, higher education, school administration, teacher evaluation
- Education Database (via ProQuest) This link opens in a new windowSupports the study and application of education across all levels of education, including early childhood education, primary and secondary education, and higher education. The database supports global study and research, including thousands of full-text journals, dissertations and other relevant sources.
- ERIC (EBSCO) This link opens in a new windowThe world's most widely used index to educational-related literature, established in 1966. Over one million records of journal articles, research reports, curriculum and teaching guides, conference papers, and books.
- ERIC (via ProQuest) This link opens in a new windowThe world's most widely used index to educational-related literature, established in 1966. Over one million records of journal articles, research reports, curriculum and teaching guides, conference papers, and books.
- Scopus This link opens in a new windowScopus is a large, multidisciplinary database, which indexes peer reviewed journal articles, books, book chapters, conference proceedings and trade publications. It provides cited reference searching, so you can navigate forward and backward through the literature to uncover all the information relevant to your research and set up citation alerts. Other useful tools include citation overviews, author and affiliation searching, visual analysis of search results and a journal analyser and author identifier tools (if you are interested in publishing work).
- Web of Science This link opens in a new windowWeb of Science is a multidisciplinary database, which indexes scholarly journal articles, books, book chapters and conference proceedings. It provides cited reference searching, so you can navigate forward and backward through the literature to uncover all the information relevant to your research. Use citation reports to see citation activity and geographical trends and the ‘analyse results’ tool to identify trends and publication patterns.
Below is a list of key databases and eJournal collections in your subject. They will either provide you with the full text of the journal or they will give you the bibliographic details of an article. If we have access to this item on another one of our subscriptions you will see the 'find@newcastle' option next to the item. Follow this link to find out if we have the full text available.
- Child Development & Adolescent Studies (EBSCO) This link opens in a new windowChild Development & Adolescent Studies is today’s source for references to the current and historical literature related to growth and development of children through the age of 21. Book reviews and abstracts from hundreds of journals and a bibliography of thousands of technical reports, books, book chapters, theses and dissertations covering biomedical and social sciences worldwide are indexed.
- CINAHL (EBSCO) This link opens in a new windowOffering complete coverage of English-language nursing journals and publications from the National League for Nursing and the American Nurses' Association, this database covers nursing, biomedicine, health sciences librarianship, consumer health and 17 allied health disciplines.
- EMBASE This link opens in a new windowIs a major biomedical and pharmaceutical database indexing over 3,500 international journals in the following fields: drug research, pharmacology, pharmaceutics, toxicology, clinical and experimental human medicine, health policy and management, public health, occupational health, environmental health, drug dependence and abuse, psychiatry, forensic medicine, and biomedical engineering/instrumentation. There is selective coverage for nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, psychology, and alternative medicine. Approximately 375,000 records are added yearly.
- Medline (OVID) This link opens in a new windowThe key database for medicine and related disciplines The database indexes articles in medical, dental and biomedical journals. Its coverage includes approximately 5600 international journals. Medline indexes articles published since 1946 and is updated monthly.
- PsycARTICLES This link opens in a new windowProviding full text access to nearly 100 titles in the area of Psychology from the American Psychological Association with coverage from as early as 1894.
- PsycINFO This link opens in a new windowCovers the professional and academic literature in psychology and related disciplines, including medicine, sociology and linguistics.
All databases should have a help section with tips and tricks on how to get the best out of using them, so do make yourself familiar with them. You also may find the following helpful:
- EBSCO Host supportVideo Tutorials of help and support. Useful when learning how to use the Historical Abstracts database.
- OVID supportHelp and support on how to use OVID medline, PsychInfo and Embase databases.
- ProQuest supportVideo tutorials of help and support. Useful when learning how to use 'ERIC' via ProQuest
- Scopus supportHelp and support on how to access and use Scopus.
- Web of Science helpVideo tutorials and guides.
Try Google Scholar for finding scholarly literature on the internet. Google Scholar is particularly good at finding Open Access (freely accessible) scholarly information but a great deal of important literature is still only available through the databases and electronic journals to which the Library subscribes. You should, therefore, use Google Scholar in addition to (and not instead of) our databases and electronic journals.
