Top Find Information on Your Topic. These are good for narrowing down a topic. For specific aspects of a topic, use books and scholarly journals. For information on what has been done over time, use books, bibliographies, scholarly journals, newspapers or government documents. For the most up to date information, use articles from scholarly journals.
Books are good for concepts, history and theory.
However, due to the length of time it takes to get a book published, books will not contain the most recent information. See also the Subject Listing of Electronic Databases Available at Aurora University. Don't forget the General Sites and Search Tools , and Subject-Specific Web Sites . Education Abstracts Indexes articles from more than 400 English-language periodicals and yearbooks, as well as books relating to education published in 1995 or later. Subject coverage includes education at all levels.