Teaching and Learning in Higher Education: Start Here

Search for articles on teaching in your discipline.  Consider including "college," "university," "undergraduates," "instruction," or "teaching" in a keyword search to retrieve relevant results, for example "science and undergraduates and service learning."

Education Resources Information Center (ERIC via EBSCO): Educational literature including journal articles, lesson plans, and conference papers, 1966 to the present.  Use ERIC to begin your literature review. Indexes 950 education journals.  Tip!  Combine ERIC with Education Research Complete: Click on ERIC and then "Choose Databases."  

Education Research Complete (via EBSCO): Cover-to-cover indexing for 2.200 journals in education; late 1800's to present.  Tip!  Combine ERIC with Education Research Complete: Click on ERIC and then "Choose Databases."  

PsycINFO (via EBSCO): Find articles from psychology, educational psychology, behavioral science, and mental health journals, 1900s-present. Abstracts & bibliographies provided.  Tip!  For educational psychology topics, combine PsycINFO with ERIC and Education Research Complete: Click on PsycINFO, then "Choose Databases."

Web of Science/Web of Knowledge: Primary use is to follow a research topic or the work of a specific author. Scattered indexing, 1956-1991. Full indexing, 1992-present.  Tip!  Use the Cited Reference search to learn how often a work has been cited.