Library Guides/ Pedagogy and Educational Sciences

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On this page you find the most important sources of information in the field of Pedagogy and Educational Sciences.

ERIC This link opens in a new window
Bibliographic database for the field of education
PsycINFO This link opens in a new window
Bibliographic database for the field of psychology
Medline This link opens in a new window
Bibliographic databse for the fields of medicine, the health care system and much more. The MEDLINE database contains the same records as PUBMED.
SocINDEX This link opens in a new window
Bibliographic database for the field of sociology
Web of Science This link opens in a new window
Citation database with multidisciplinary coverage of journals, as well as international proceedings. With cited reference searching.
Scopus This link opens in a new window
Scopus is the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature: scientific journals, books and conference proceedings.

International encyclopedia of the social & behavioral sciences
Encyclopedia about behavioral and social sciences
Gale Virtual Reference Library
E-book versions of reference works in various fields
Sage eReference
Portal to subject-specific reference works in the social & behavioral sciences
Annual reviews
Review articles of the literature on specific topics, with extensive bibliographies
Wikipedia
Online free-content encyclopedia

A list of available current newspapers and a newspaper archive, licensed by the library or freely available online

Current newspapers

Financial Times This link opens in a new window
British online newspaper that focuses on business and economic current affairs.
Financieele Dagblad This link opens in a new window
Dutch newspaper focused on business and economics
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The New York Times This link opens in a new window
Online access to The New York Times articles from 1851-1922 and from 1980 to the present.
Nexis Uni This link opens in a new window
Dutch and foreign newspapers and other sources for news and journalism.

Online archive Dutch newspapers

Delpher (kranten) This link opens in a new window
Digitized Dutch newspapers from 1618 to 1995

The selection of journals below is limited to general journals. For a more complete, alphabetical list, see this list,

American educational research journal
Original empirical and theoretical studies and analyses in education
Child & family social work
Original and distinguished contributions on matters of research, theory, policy and practice in the field of social work with children and their families
Children and youth services review
International, multidisciplinary journal that focuses on disadvantaged or otherwise vulnerable children, young people, families and the systems designed to support them.
Educational research and evaluation
Fully refereed international journal publishing original academic articles on all aspects of education
Harvard educational review
A scholarly journal of opinion and research in education
School effectiveness and school improvement
Presents information on educational effectiveness, practice and policy-making across primary and secondary education.
Pedagogiek
Wetenschappelijk forum voor opvoeding, onderwijs en vorming

Springer eBooks This link opens in a new window
All English e-books published this year and in the past two years.

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