Databases
Much of your research will occur via Scout or specific databases.The University of Alabama provides over 300 databases in all subjects. Here are few databases pertinent to educational qualitative research:
- Academic Search Premier This link opens in a new window
Multi-disciplinary database; articles from journals and other publications. coves business, education. history, literature, medicine, philosophy, politics, and technology.
- Dissertations and Theses at University of Alabama This link opens in a new window
This database is a companion to ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, featuring current research from the University of Alabama with citations and abstracts for dissertations and theses. Full text can be downloaded by authorized University of Alabama users.
- Educator's Reference Complete (Gale OneFile) This link opens in a new window
Gale OneFile: Educator's Reference is a comprehensive collection of journals and periodicals covering various educational levels, specialties, administration, funding, and policy issues.
- ERIC EBSCOhost This link opens in a new window
ERIC Uses the EBSCO search screen interface. ERIC is the world's largest source of information on education and provides indexing and abstracting for articles and documents from 1966 onward.
- ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global This link opens in a new window
Searchable and browsable database of dissertations and theses from around the world, 1743 to present.
- APA PsycINFO This link opens in a new window
Contains citations and summaries of journal articles, book chapters, books, and technical reports in the field of psychology and psychological aspects of related disciplines including medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, linguistics, anthropology, business, and law.
- SAGE Journals This link opens in a new window
E-journals on the SAGE platform covering a wide range of academic subject areas in the Social Sciences.
- SAGE Research Methods Online This link opens in a new window
SAGE Research Methods is an online research tool created to help students and researchers across the social and behavioral sciences to design research projects, understand methods or identify new methods, conduct research, and write up their findings.
E-Journals
- American Journal of Educational StudiesPresents original theory, conceptual development, and empirical quantitative and qualitative research in all areas related to technical, vocational and academic education.
- International Journal of Qualitative MethodsA multilingual, multidisciplinary electronic journal focusing on all aspects of qualitative research methods.
- Qualitative InquiryArticles, review articles and commentary providing a forum for qualitative methodology and related issues in the human sciences.
- Qualitative ResearchFeatures papers with a methodological focus, discussed in relation to specific empirical studies and research problems and papers raising philosophical, theoretical, historical or ideological debates about qualitative research.