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Find Articles
Discover the best places to find articles, and other places to search for information.
Databases
Exceptional Children Databases
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Education Databases
- ERIC This link opens in a new window
- Professional Development Collection This link opens in a new window
General Databases
General Databases
- Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window
- Google Scholar This link opens in a new window
- JSTOR This link opens in a new window
Journal Finder
Journal Finder
Statistics & News
Statistics & News
- Statista This link opens in a new window
- Newspaper Source Plus This link opens in a new window
[Sub Title] Resource/Books
Social Sciences & Health
- PsycInfo This link opens in a new window
- Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection This link opens in a new window
- SocINDEX This link opens in a new window
- Social Sciences Full Text This link opens in a new window
- Health Source This link opens in a new window
Searching Eric
Searching Eric
- ERIC This link opens in a new windowUse ERIC to research scholarly discussions about educational law cases and applications in school settings.
About Databases
About Databases
Databases to which Taylor University subscribes have distinctive differences from search engines such as Google or Google Scholar. A database, generally, is a collection of information organized to provide efficient retrieval of subject matter, specifically scholarly subject matter. They tend to be narrower in scope than Google or Google Scholar.
Prominent features of these subscription databases generally include:
- Covering specific discipline area/s.
- Including academic (peer-reviewed) articles from journals or magazines, eBooks, newspapers, images and research related resources.
- Providing citation information on or full-text access to the item types listed above.
- Accessible because of subscription for which Zondervan pays. Whereas Google is free, databases can be many thousands of dollars per year.
Zondervan Library subscribes to over 100 research databases/tools that contain journal, magazine, and newspaper articles, as well as reports and other written materials on both general and specific disciplines. There are pros and cons for using each tool. Awareness of the content, organization, and precision of search capabilities of each can save you time and yield the most appropriate and relevant results.