Finding Journal Articles in Education and Counseling

Overview: Characteristics, why they're useful, and how to find them.

Databases: The top category, "Bibliographies, Indexes and Abstracting Services," includes databases that index and/or provide full text of articles in education, counseling, and related social science journals.

	Best Bets:
	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center)  (All US JHU)
	Education Full Text (also part of OmniFile Full Text Mega)  (All US JHU)
	ProQuest Education Journals  (All US JHU)

Searching Tips: Brainstorming search terms and combining them for the best results.

Frequently asked questions about finding journal articles:

• I have a citation to an article that I want.  How do I find out if the library has it?

Search our Citation Linker to determine all the ways an article is available through the JHU Libraries (this link will open in a new window).  IMPORTANT: If no links to the full text of your article are displayed, be sure to click on the JHU Libraries Catalog link to find out whether we have a subscription to the journal.

• I found something I want in an article database but there's no full text.  How can I get it?

Look for the FIND IT button in the record for the article:

Clicking this button in the article record will open a new window that will display all the possible ways the article is available through the JHU Libraries.

If there's no FIND IT button in the record for the article you want, do a "journal/newspaper title" search in the JHU Libraries Catalog for the title of the journal (NOT the article title) to see whether we subscribe to it. (Change "title" to "journal/newspaper title" in the dropdown menu.)

• I'm looking for an ERIC document.  What are they and where can I find them?

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