Subject guides: Education: Databases

Accessing and using Databases

Following is a selection of Education databases that are relevant according to discipline as well as teaching, research and/or practice.

Key databases for Education and Counselling.

Changes to the ERIC Database

Please be aware that changes are being made to the ERIC database.

The ERIC Help Desk has stated: “The [US] Department of Education is working with the Department of Government Efficiency to “reduce overall Federal spending” and “reallocate spending to promote efficiency” (EO 14222). As a result, ERIC will be significantly reducing the number of records we index going forward. We expect to be reducing the collection by approximately 45% starting April 24, 2025. Subject matter was not considered during the process to identify which sources would be made inactive. Please note that all records currently in ERIC will remain available.”

There is not yet a definitive list of all deselected journals, however an unofficial working document is being collated by researchers and librarians. Note this document is not affiliated with Monash University.

We will continue to update this notice when more information is available. You can also contact the Library for assistance.

NOTE: More psychology databases for counselling can be found on the Databases by Subject: Psychology and psychiatry subject guide

A+ education (Informit) This link opens in a new window
A+ Education, based on the Australian Education Index, is an indexing and full text database that provides access to journal articles from published material on all aspects of education in Australia.
ERIC via ProQuest This link opens in a new window
ERIC, the Educational Resources Information Center, is a comprehensive, international database containing millions of journal articles, research reports, conference papers, dissertations, and books on a variety of education topics.
ProQuest education journals This link opens in a new window
Proquest Education Journals (The Education Database) gives users access to top educational publications and titles in full text including scholarly journals, dissertations and theses.
PsycINFO This link opens in a new window
Comprehensive, international database that provides citations with abstracts to the scholarly literature in the psychological, social, behavioural, and health sciences

Other databases for Education and Counselling

Listed in alphabetical order.

BlackWords
Information and resources about Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander writing and storytelling in all forms. Includes reviews and teaching resources

Health collection (Informit) This link opens in a new window
This collection provides evidence-based literature and features comprehensive coverage of key disciplines including nursing, health sciences and allied health with a focus on Australian and New Zealand content.
Indigenous collection (Informit) This link opens in a new window
This collection offers a variety of content on both historical and topical issues within Indigenous studies encompassing Indigenous culture, health, human geography and other aspects. This inter-disciplinary platform also provides abstracts and full text content regarding Indigenous communities in Australia, New Zealand and beyond.
LearnTechLib This link opens in a new window
Comprehensive online resource for research on the latest developments and applications in learning and technology. Content includes dissertations, presentation slides, keynote talks, and electronic books.
Ovid MEDLINE (R) This link opens in a new window
Ovid MEDLINE covers the international literature on biomedicine, including the allied health fields and the biological and physical sciences, humanities, and information science as they relate to medicine and health care. Information is indexed from approximately 5,600 journals published world-wide. Records start in 1946 up to the present, with daily updates. Ovid MEDLINE is produced by the National Library of Medicine.
ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global This link opens in a new window
ProQuest Dissertations and Theses: Global (PQDTGlobal) is a comprehensive collection of full-text dissertations and theses from around the world including searchable citations to dissertations and theses with over a million full-text dissertations that are available for download in PDF format.
SAGE research methods online This link opens in a new window
Sage research methods online is a research methods tool created to help researchers, faculty and students with their research projects. Researchers can explore methods and concepts to help them design research projects,conduct their research, and write up their findings. Since this resource focuses on methodology rather than disciplines, it can be used across the social sciences, health sciences, and more. The Methods Map can help you find the best technique for your research.
ScienceDirect (Elsevier) This link opens in a new window
ScienceDirect is Elsevier's premier full text platform of peer-reviewed scientific scholarly literature. It comprises millions of peer-reviewed journal articles and books across a number of disciplines with a focus on physical sciences and engineering, life sciences, health sciences, and to a lesser extent social sciences and the humanities with a growing library of open access literature.
Scopus (Elsevier) This link opens in a new window
Large multidisciplinary database of scholarly literature including peer-reviewed journal articles, conference papers, books and book chapters including abstracts and full-text as well as open access publications. Citation searching can identify cited papers and author and journal metrics can be extracted from Scopus.
SPORTDiscus with full text (EBSCOHost) This link opens in a new window
SPORTDiscus with full text is a comprehensive source and research tool for all areas of sports and sports medicine literature and providing full text for over 500 journals indexed in SPORTDiscus.
Taylor & Francis online This link opens in a new window
This resource is a portal to Taylor & Francis publications that provides access to thousands of e-books and journals in science, technology, engineering, medicine, humanities and social science from well known publishers such as Routledge, CRC Press, Chapman and Hall, Ashgate, Psychology Press, Longman and Heinemann. The site also hosts a growing collection of Open Access content.
VOCEDplus : the tertiary education research database. This link opens in a new window
VOCEDplus is a free research database for tertiary education, especially as it relates to workforce needs, skills development, and social inclusion. It encompasses vocational education and training (VET), higher education, adult and community education, informal learning, and VET in Schools. It is international in scope and contains over 80,000 English language records, many with links to full text documents, and has extensive coverage of Australian material.
Web of science -- all databases This link opens in a new window
Web of Science All Databases enables searching of leading scholarly journals, books, and proceedings in the sciences, social sciences, and arts and humanities, and navigation of the full citation network hosted on the WoS platform.