Education

Your guide to Education research here at UCLA!

Education Librarian

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Francesca Marineo Munk
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Welcome to the Education Research Guide!

This guide is a starting place for students, faculty, staff, and other researchers to discover resources and strategies for finding, evaluating, using, and creating information in and around education. 

Explore the various tabs on the left for education-specific resources and/or check out our Research Tips and Tools Guides for additional research support. 

You can also schedule a research consultation meeting with me at any time to get one-on-one research support.

Happy researching!

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Getting Started with Your Research

Google

Best for: background research/learning about a topic, site-specific searching (i.e., site:.edu), and finding grey literature.

Google Scholar

Best for: background research and finding a broad selection of academic sources.

UC Library Search

Best for: finding books, articles, and other sources available through the library and broad and interdisciplinary searches.

Databases

Best for: disciplinary and interdisciplinary research focus more on academic source types, specific source needs such as dissertations, reference entries, films, and news.

Databases to start your education research include: Education SourceAPA PsycInfoAcademic Search Complete.