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.
Expanded Academic Indexes and abstracts more than 1900 journals covering virtually every academic discipline and includes full text of more than 900 of these titles. This database searches the most recent 3 years at a time, but it has a backfile database extending back to 1980. ERIC Educational Resources Information Center. Contains more than 700,000 citations with abstracts to materials relating to some aspect of education. Social Work Abstracts Produced by the National Association of Social Workers, Inc., this database contains more than 35,000 records, spanning 1977 to the present, from social work and related journals on topics such as homelessness, AIDS, child and family welfare, aging, substance abuse, legislation, community organization, and more.