LibGuides: English Teaching Secondary: Articles/Databases

Database Search Tips

Be prepared with synonyms in case your original search produces no results. If the database offers a link to a thesaurus or subject terms tab, use it to locate additional or related words for your search terms.
Pay attention to search tips or help screens provided by each database. Take the time to learn how to use the tool - it will help you to avoid frustration!
Remember that most databases allow for Boolean Searching (see the video in this guide). Use and to narrow, or to expand, not to exclude. Truncation is also useful for bringing back all relevant results. For example, type counsel* to bring back documents containing the words counsel, counseling, counselor...
Review the database search screen for a Thesaurus or Subject Terms tab or link.
Review articles, the references with this article, look for sections listing key words or subject terms, and relationships to your focus on the topic.

General Vs. Subject Databases

General databases are also considered multi-disciplinary databases, meaning they provide information for many subject areas. Examples of some general databases through NSU are ABI Inform, Academic Search Premier, JSTOR, MasterFile Premier, OmniFile Full Text Mega, Opposing Viewpoints in Context, ProQuest, Salem Press Titles, or WorldCat. These databases provide a starting point for research, especially when working with a variety of topics.

Subject databases are designed to provide information for a particular subject area. For example, Communication & Mass Media Complete, MLA International Bibliography, Humanities Full Text, Literature Resource Center, Something About the Author, ERIC, or Education Full Text.

When searching for information, try using the general databases as well as those in your subject area. See the below link to the NSU Libraries Articles and Databases by Subject for a complete listing of databases, both general and by subject.

Selected Databases

To support your academic research and course work, see the selected databases listed below. They include a mixture of general and subject and offer peer-reviewed articles as well as additional periodical formats. NOTE: for remote access to search subscription databases, you may be prompted to enter your NSU userID and password.

Academic Search Premier
This multi-disciplinary database provides full text for more than 4,600 journals, including full text for nearly 3,900 peer-reviewed titles. PDF backfiles to 1975 or further are available for well over one hundred journals, and searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,000 titles.
Education Full Text
Providing full text, indexing, and abstracts for hundreds of periodicals, books, and yearbooks, this database covers a broad range of subjects pertaining to education and is invaluable for education students, professionals, and policy makers.

Education Full Text features content on a wide array of subject areas including adult education, comparative education, government funding, higher education, school administration, teacher evaluation, and much more.
ERIC (Education Resources Information Center - EBSCOhost)
An online library of education research and information, sponsored by the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) of the U.S. Department of Education.
Humanities Full Text
This database provides full text, abstracts and bibliographic indexing of the most noted scholarly sources in the humanities, as well as specialized magazines. Content includes feature articles, interviews, obituaries and original works of fiction, drama, poetry and much more.
JSTOR (Journal Storage)
Containing digitized back issues of academic journals, it now also includes books and primary sources, and current issues of journals. It provides full-text searches of almost 2,000 journals. More than 8,000 institutions in more than 160 countries have access to JSTOR; most access is by subscription, but some older public domain content is freely available to anyone.
Mental Measurements Yearbook with Tests in Print
Produced by the Buros Center for Testing at the University of Nebraska, this database provides users with a comprehensive guide to over 3,000 contemporary testing instruments. Designed for an audience ranging from novice test consumers to experienced professionals, the MMY series contains information essential for a complete evaluation of test products within such diverse areas as psychology, education, business, and leadership.
MLA International Bibliography
Contains millions of citations from journals & series, as well as book publishers. The indexed materials coverage is international, and includes titles and full-text links from J-STOR and Project Muse, Wiley-Blackwell and Taylor & Francis. This resource also contains hundreds of thousands of subject names and terms.
OmniFile Full Text Mega
This full text-only database contains a wealth of essential material for learning and research across the disciplines, including topical coverage on ethnic studies, women's studies, history and more.
Professional Development Collection
This comprehensive database includes full-text education journals for professionals and education students.
Teacher Reference Center
Provides indexing and abstracts for 280 peer-reviewed journals and covers a variety of topics of interest to teachers,

For a complete listing of the databases offered through the NSU Libraries organized by subject or listed alphabetically visit:

Periodical Titles

The following six publications and others are available online via the NCTE website. To locate the John Vaughan Library's (Tahlequah) print version, use the Advanced Search through the Library Discovery system and search by title, set limiters for format to journal and library to Northeastern State University. The catalog record has the Access online option available for the electronic version.

English Education (print call number, LA 632.E52)
English Journal (print call number, PE 1.E5)
English Leadership Quarterly (print call number, LB 1620.5 .C776)
Language Arts (print call number, LB 1576.A1E6)
Research in the Teaching of English (print call number, PE 1065.R373)
Voices from the Middle (print call number, LB 1631.V65)

Additional titles about books and book reviews:

Kirkus Reviews (online)
American Book Review (ABR) -search the database Academic Search Premier by publication title or online at the link below.
The New York Review of Books (print call number, AP2.N655 or online at the link below).

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Literature and Biographies

Literature (Gale)
Provides combined access to Literature Criticism Online (10 multidisciplinary series) and to Literature Resource Center.
Biography & Genealogy Master Index (Gale)
This database indexes more than 15 million individuals, living and deceased, covered in more than 1700 biographical reference sources.
Book Collection Nonfiction: High School Edition
Thousands of searchable popular nonfiction books for High School grades.
Book Collection Nonfiction: Middle School Edition
Thousands of searchable popular nonfiction books for Middle School grades.
Literature Resource Center (Gale)
The world’s most current, comprehensive and reliable online literature database, Literature Resource Center is uniquely relevant to today’s researcher. Its rich critical, biographical and contextual content supports interdisciplinary approaches, information literacy and the development of critical-thinking skills.

Full-text articles from scholarly journals and literary magazines are combined with critical essays, work and topic overviews, full-text works, biographies, and more to provide a wealth of information on authors, their works, and literary movements. Researchers at all levels will find the information they need, with content covering all genres and disciplines, all time periods and all parts of the world.
Marquis Who's Who
A 'high-speed', searchable online database, features comprehensive profiles on over 1.5 million of the most accomplished individuals from all fields of endeavor including: government, business, science and technology, the arts, entertainment, and sports. Recognized globally since 1899 as the premier biographical data provider, Marquis Who's Who now gives you the ability to conduct powerful searches of its entire database of achievers from around the globe. Search by name, gender, occupation, geography, hobbies and interests, religion and much more.
Salem Press Titles
Provides access to a growing number of literary reference works both in traditional, printed form and online.
Something About the Author (Gale Literature)
provides electronic access to all volumes of Something About the Author and Something About the Author: Autobiography Series. This critically acclaimed series spotlights more than 12,000 individuals in entries that typically cover personal life, career, writings, adaptations, and additional sources. Autobiographical essays average about 10,000 words and discuss the author's career, interests and motivation, among other topics.

News and Newswires

Oklahoman Archives

ProQuest News and Newspapers