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Selecting a specialized education database for literature reviews and evidence synthesis projects
Sarah Rose Fitzgerald1, Kari D Weaver2, Alissa Droog3
1University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, USA.
Abstract:
While the Institute of Education Science's ERIC is often recommended for comprehensive literature searching in the field of education, there are several other specialized education databases to discover education literature. This study investigates journal coverage overlaps between four specialized education databases: Education Source (EBSCO), Education Database (ProQuest), ERIC (Institute of Education Sciences), and Educator's Reference Complete (Gale). Out of a total of 4,695 unique journals analyzed, there are 2,831 journals uniquely covered by only one database, as well as many journals covered by only two or three databases. Findings show that evidence synthesis projects and literature reviews benefit from the careful selection of multiple specialized education databases and that ERIC is insufficient as the primary education database for comprehensive searching in the field.
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