Education Databases
For a free, 'teach yourself' tutorial about using the internet for educational research visit http://www.vts.rdn.ac.uk/tutorial/education
British Education Index - 1986 to date
Over 300 education and training journals published in the British Isles, similar report and conference literature, and texts in the education on-line collection.
http://www.leeds.ac.uk/bei/
The Centre for Research on the Wider Benefits of Learning
This Centre was established in 1999 to investigate the full range of benefits that learning brings both to the individual learner and to society as a whole. The website contains downloadable reports and papers.
http://www.learningbenefits.net
Computer Assisted Qualitative Data Analysis Software (CAQDAS)
The project is in receipt of its fourth consecutive term of funding by the UK ESRC(Economic and Social Research Council). It has no commercial links to any software developer or supplier. It aims to offer practical support, training and information in a range of software programs which have been designed to assist qualitative data analysis. The project also provides various platforms for debate concerning the methodological and epistmological issues arising from the use of such packages.
http://caqdas.soc.surrey.ac.uk
Electronic Journals in the field of Education
A list of scholarly, peer reviewed, full text and free of charge journals compiled by the American Educational Research Association
http://aera-cr.ed.asu.edu/links.html
Electronic Textbook Statsoft
Electronic statistics textbook offers information about the understanding and application of statistics, covering a wide variety of disciplines including social science statistics and survey research.
http://www.statsoft.com/textbook/stathome.html
Emerald Fulltext and Management Reviews
Emerald Fulltext and Management Reviews is a useful database for articles covering the management of education
ISD Electronic Resources (look under 'e' in the index)
ERIC - 1966 to date (Educational Resources Information Centre)
Contains more than 700,000 records about educational topics. It includes journal articles, books, theses, conference papers, standards and guidelines.
ISD Electronic Resources (look under 'e' in the index)
Manchester Information and Associated Services (MIMAS)
MIMAS is a JISC-supported national data centre providing the UK higher education, further education and research community with networked access to key data and information resources to support teaching, learning and research across a wide range of disciplines.
http://www.mimas.ac.uk
National Statistics
National Statistics provides government data on a range of topics which can either be searched or viewed by theme. The section on education covers themes such as curriculum, educational establishments, expenditure on education, graduates, students, educational ad related staff, examinations and qualifications, further education, and international comparisons of education.
http://www.statistics.gov.uk
Newspapers online
Lexis-Nexis gives unparalleled access to newspapers and news stories, including full text of the THES and TES, as well as other newspapers with education sections, e.g. Guardian, and local and international resources.
ISD Electronic Resources
TLRP (Teaching and Learning Research Programme)
Details of all TLRP projects can be accessed from this webpage
http://www.tlrp.org/
Qualidata
A specialist unit of UK Data Archive, Qualidata provides a national service for the acquisition, dissemination and re-use of social sciences qualitative research data.
http://www.qualidata.essex.ac.uk
Regard
This is an on-line database containing information on social science research funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC). It is publicly and freely available and contains over 75,000 records, dating back to the mid-1980s. It is updated daily.
http://www.regard.ac.uk
Research Capacity Building Network (RCBN)
The Research Capacity Building Network (RCBN) is part of the Economic and Social Research Council's (ESRC) Teaching and Learning Research Programme (TLRP). It is based at the Cardiff University School of Social Sciences and led by Professor Stephen Gorard.
The purpose of the RCBNis to support the research capacity building activities of the TLRPand, where possible, extend these to the wider educational research community. In particular, the RCBNhas been established to facilitate the sharing of research skills, knowledge and expertise, largely by providing and brokering needs-directed research capacity-building activities on a voluntary and career-development basis.
http://www.cf.ac.uk/socsi/capacity/
Social Science Information Gateway (SOSIG)
Part of the Resource Discovery Network, this is a freely available Internet service which aims to provide a trusted source of selected, high quality internet information. Has a specific section for Education.
http://www.sosig.ac.uk/education
Scholarly Articles Research Alerting (SARA)
A service which delivers by email, tables of contents for any issue of Carfax, Martin Dunitz, Psychology Press, Routledge, Spon Press or Taylor & Francis journals. This service is free of charge and you can receive alerts by keyword, title, sub-category or main category.
http://www.tandf.co.uk/sara
UK Data Archive
The UK Data Archive (UKDA) is a resource centre that acquires, disseminates, preserves, and promotes the largest collection of digital data in the social sciences and humanities in the United Kingdom. Its primary aim is to support secondary use of quantitative and qualitative data for research and learning. The catalogue can be searched online.
http://www.data-archive.ac.uk
UK Longitudinal Resources Centre (ULSC)
Aims to provide an up-to-date guide to major longitudinal sources of data. The central purpose of this site is to allow users to see what kinds of longitudinal data are available and to locate information about studies which may provide data useful to their research interests. The site covers data sets collected by governmental, academic, private social research, medical and private industrial sources. Users of this site can find out basic details of the purpose, methodology, timing, coverage, and availability of the longitudinal data sets covered here.
http://iserwww.essex.ac.uk/ulsc/projects/ldr4ss/index.php