Did you know there are more than 30 great databases for education research available through the BU Libraries?  They include: Major education news sources Education Week Chronicle of Higher Education Streaming video sources  Academic Video Online  Kanopy HistoryMakers: African American Video Oral History Collection Sign Language Acquisition Research literature discovery tools Sage Research... Read the rest of this entry »

To all our new and returning BU Wheelock students: Welcome to the Pickering Educational Resources Library! We have a wonderful set of resources, services, and amenities available to you both online and in-person, and we encourage you to stop by and check it out. The library can be found in the basement at... Read the rest of this entry »

PBS Learning Media has launched a great new design of their free site. Teachers can easily browse the site by subject and by grade level.  Tens of thousands of resources are available, including videos (some in Spanish), images, and interactive learning objects. This is just one of the wonderful sites listed... Read the rest of this entry »

Boston University Libraries offers current issue access to the Bilingual Research Journal (a journal of the National Association for Bilingual Education). This key peer-reviewed serial is published by Routledge and is indexed in many databases such as ERIC and Education Full Text. Our subscription provides access to current issues and issues going... Read the rest of this entry »

This eBook is available to the BU community through the ProQuest eBook Central platform. This massive work of scholarship with more than 50 contributing authors is organized into 27 chapters. With chapters on reading fluency, classroom influences, and higher order thinking in comprehension, the content is a useful summary of research... Read the rest of this entry »

The Condition of Education report is released annually by the National Center for Education Statistics.  Its indicators help to document recent trends and developments in American education, including: Family Characteristics Preprimary, Elementary, and Secondary Education Postsecondary Education Population Characteristics and Economic Outcomes International Comparisons School Crime and Safety. For other similar... Read the rest of this entry »

The BU Libraries maintains a subscription to the premier dissertations and theses database: ProQuest Dissertations and Theses. Dissertations written in the United States from 1997 to the present are usually available in full text, PDF version in this database. For older dissertations, abstracts are available in this database, and physical copies are... Read the rest of this entry »

Featuring "the highest quality empirical, theoretically grounded work addressing the main functions of higher education and the dynamic role of the university in society", this peer-reviewed source has been in publication since volume 1 in 1930. The current issues of the Journal of Higher Education are now digitally available to the... Read the rest of this entry »

Unsure where to start your research? Have you checked out the education research guides available from the Pickering Library team? We have produced guides on a broad spectrum of topics within education, including: Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in Education, Educational and Psychological Tests and Measures, Language Education, Science Education, and Children’s... Read the rest of this entry »

To all our new and returning students, Welcome! to the Pickering Educational Resources Library. We have a wonderful set of resources, services, and amenities available to you both online and in-person, and we encourage you to stop by and check it out. Here is a link to our detailed hours. Whether you need a... Read the rest of this entry »