Research Guides: Language, Literacy, and Sociocultural Education: Welcome

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This guide lists resources and tools that will help you to conduct research in language, literacy, and sociocultural education, and use the materials you find.

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Contact Ash Lierman at 856-256-4979 or lierman@rowan.edu !

Best Places to Start

Education Source This link opens in a new window
World's largest full-text research database designed for education students, professionals and policymakers.
Provides full text, indexing and abstracts for thousands of education journals, books and education-related conference papers. Coverage spans all levels of education and includes educational specialties such as multilingual education, health education and testing.
ERIC (on the EBSCO platform) This link opens in a new window
Articles and reports on all aspects of education.
ERIC indexes articles (identified as "EJ") and documents (identified as "ED") on all aspects of education. This version of ERIC is provided on the EBSCO platform
MLA International Bibliography This link opens in a new window
Research articles in language and linguistics, rhetoric, folklore, film, literary theory & criticism, & dramatic arts.
Produced by the Modern Language Association (MLA), the electronic version of the bibliography dates back to the 1920s and 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.

Subjects within the MLA International Bibliography consist of literature, language and linguistics, folklore, film, literary theory & criticism, dramatic arts, as well as the historical aspects of printing and publishing. Listings on rhetoric and composition and the history, theory and practice of teaching language and literature are also included.
Sociological Abstracts (1952-current) This link opens in a new window
Current research articles in sociology.
Index to publications in the fields of sociology, social sciences and related disciplines from 1952 to the present. (ProQuest). Click the Get-It button to link to full text, when available.