Subject Support Guide For Teacher Training
Welcome to the subject page for Teacher Training. We provide access to thousands of high quality texts and journal for Teacher Training at the University of East London.
This guide includes information on key resources, such as databases, journal titles and links to other resources that maybe relevant to your studies.
Finding Teacher Training Research
Databases provide an interface that enables you to search thousands of journal articles, book chapters, dissertations and more. They will include either the full text of journal articles or the article abstracts.
A complete A-Z list of all databases​ is available on the library website.
EBSCO Education Research Complete
EBSCO Education Research Complete is one of the main resources for Education research and should be your first point of call when conducting any literature search in this area.
Why should I use EBSCO Education Research Complete?
- Contains peer-reviewed full text journals
- Contains abstracts and indexes
- Content covers a wide variety of subjects and disciplines relevant to Education
How do I get to EBSCO Education Research Complete?
EBSCO Education Research Complete [opens in a new window]
Select 'EBSCOHost Web'
You may need to sign in first. If so, under 'Find your institution' enter and select 'University of East London' to continue. You then may be asked to enter your UEL email address and password to proceed.
Click on or select 'Education Research Complete' to continue.
EBSCO Academic Search Ultimate
EBSCO Academic Search Ultimate is the other resource and complements Education Research Complete; you can use it individually or together with other EBSCO databases.
Why should I use EBSCO Academic Search Ultimate?
- Contains peer-reviewed full text journals
- Contains abstracts and indexes
- Content covers a wide variety of subjects and disciplines relevant to the social sciences
How do I get to EBSCO Academic Search Ultimate?
EBSCO Academic Search Ultimate [opens in a new window]
Other key databases
Why should I try other databases?
- Journal titles, literature type and full text access may differ
- Subject and content depending on your research area may be stronger in a different database
- Functionality and tools preference
What other databases are available to me?
- Drama Online - a digital library containing high quality resources for drama and literature students.
- Digital Theatre Plus - useful for English and Drama trainees, resource containing full length productions, teaching and learning materials.
- EBSCO - link to all the subscribed databases under EBSCO.
- EBSCO APA PsycInfo - for literature relevant to the behavioural sciences and mental health
- EBSCO British Education Index - for resources relevant to research, policy and practice in education and training in the UK. Journals are mostly published in the UK.
- EBSCO ERIC - contains a variety of literature, worldwide in scope with an emphasis on materials from the United States.
- EBSCO SPORTDiscus with Full Text - for resources relevant to sport and sports medicine journals. Useful for Physical Education resources.
- Emerald- discover books, journals and case studies covering a range of subjects.
- JSTOR is a multi-subject database and useful for literature relevant to the arts and social sciences.
- Lexis+ UK - Legislation, Law reports and UK newspapers
- ProQuest Central another big database covering many subjects including Social Sciences. Not only does it contain full text as well as abstracts and citations from peer-reviewed journals but also a large number of newspapers from around the world.
- Science Direct contains access to full text as well as abstracts/citations from peer-reviewed journals from different subjects including social science.
- Scopus has lots of functions and very useful for finding latest peer-reviewed research. Links to UEL Library Search to locate full text access where available.
What if I am looking for research in other subjects? For example, art?
The multi-subject databases listed above should locate literature depending on the search terms you use to search with. Also consider checking other subject libguides for specific databases and resources at Subject Guides - Subject Support Guide - LibGuides at University of East London (uel.ac.uk)