Search the list of all MCC Library databases. The list includes descriptions of what information is included in each database, as well as why it is useful
Why search here? Use this link to search multiple education related databases at once. This collection of databases that can be found listed individually in the A-Z Database List. Choose the databases you want to search on the next screen. This is helpful if you aren't sure which education database to search or want to search multiple places at once.
What's included? This collection includes the following databases: ERIC, Professional Development Collection, Teacher Reference Center
Why search here? The Explora experience for schools and public libraries ensures that students, educators and library patrons can quickly find the reliable information they need to complete homework and research projects, deliver robust school curriculum, achieve their professional goals, and satisfy their intellectual curiosity.
What's included? Explora offers a simple search that quickly delivers relevant results including articles, e-books, essays and primary source documents. As well as high-quality articles, carefully curated topic categories that provide users with a visual entry point to browse popular research topics and subject areas, topic overviews that provide students a starting point for research, and powerful filters for narrowing search results by source type, date range, Lexile range, and content provider
Why search here? Professional Development Collection is a highly specialized database of full-text electronic information especially for educators, professional librarians and education researchers.
What's included? Professional Development Collection includes full text for high-quality education journals and reports.
An open access online journal dedicated to publishing quality peer-reviewed articles and essays in French and English that address teaching and learning interests of universities and colleges across Canada
The journal is an international forum for research and information about the scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL) and its applications in higher/tertiary education
A list of journals on teaching and learning, with comprehensive and subject specific titles. Includes open access journals and traditionally published journals. Contact a librarian if you'd like to request access to an article that isn't open access
TLI publishes peer-reviewed scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL) research in higher education across disciplinary, institutional, and geographical contexts
Use Google Scholar to search for scholarly articles on the internet. Try Google Scholar -- Advanced, as well. If you cannot find an article free in full-text, you can request it through Interlibrary Loan -- just ask a librarian
Why search here? DOAJ is a unique and extensive index of diverse open access journals from around the world, driven by a growing community, committed to ensuring quality content is freely available online for everyone.
What's included? The database includes over 19,000 journals, from over 134 countries, written in over 80 different languages. All data is freely available.
Why search here? This resources helps you find Open Educational Resources (OER). The OER Metafinder launches a real-time, simultaneous search across 22 different sources of open educational materials as you hit the Search button.
What's included? It searches well-known OER repositories like OpenStax, OER Commons, and MERLOT, but also sites like HathiTrust, DPLA, Internet Archive, and NYPL Digital Collections. Because it is a real-time, federated search, it can take a bit longer than searches of pre-indexed, curated content. Additional results will continue to trickle in as the search continues running and you begin examining your results.
Why search here? Developed by SUNY Geneseo, OASIS (Openly Available Sources Integrated Search) is a search tool that provides access to Open Educational Resources (OER). It aims to make the discovery of open content easier. OASIS currently searches a curated database drawn from 117 different sources and contains over 338,000 records.
What's included? Users can start a search if they know what they’re looking for, or they can view the variety of OER source types available to them—textbooks, courses, interactive simulations, audiobooks, and learning objects are just a few of the tools one can look for. Users can also refine their search by the source, license, and whether or not the resource has been reviewed.
Why search here? From a single point of access in OER Commons, you can search, browse, and evaluate resources in OER Commons' growing collection of over 50,000 high-quality OER.
What's included? Open Educational Resources (OER) are teaching and learning materials that you may freely use and reuse at no cost, and without needing to ask permission.
A refereed journal devoted to language, learning, and academic writing, publishes articles relevant to writing and writing pedagogy in all their intellectual, political, social, and technological complexity
A peer-reviewed electronic journal that fosters exchanges among reflective teacher-scholars across the disciplines. Published by the Center for Teaching and Learning at Worcester State University.
