Research Help: Instructional Design: Find Articles

Recommended databases

The Librarians recommend starting with these find articles, and/or essays in scholarly journals.

ERIC This link opens in a new window
ERIC (Education Resources Information Center) indexes peer-reviewed education journals. It includes documents from other education sources, including DoE publications and conference papers. It provides access to more than 1.4 million journal articles and other education-related materials. Coverage: 1966 - present.
Education Source This link opens in a new window
Provides indexing and abstracts for more than 3,500 journals and includes full text for 1,800 journals, 550 books and monographs, education-related conference papers. It also includes over 100,000 controlled and cross-referenced names of educational tests. Coverage: 1880 - present
Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window
This is a comprehensive, scholarly, multi-disciplinary, full-text database, with more than 8,500 full-text periodicals, including more than 7,300 peer-reviewed journals. This database can be a good starting place for topics that cross many subject areas. Coverage: 1887 to date
OmniFile This link opens in a new window
This is a multi-disciplinary research database, with full text from over 2,500 publications, and indexing from nearly 3,600 publications. This database provides support for research in all core undergraduate subjects, but especially in the arts and humanities. Coverage: 1982 - present.

Searchable Database

The following database does not provide access the the full text of the articles/documents, but this is a great place to search for articles related to instructional design. If you find an article of interest, fill out an interlibrary loan form (see the box above) or check on the main library page under "Find Full Text Journals" to see if we subscribe to a particular journal.

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Open Access Journals of Interest

Here is a short list of open access journals for this subject area. This is not a comprehensive list, just a few that we found interesting.

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Directory of Open Access Journals This link opens in a new window
Provides full-text access to articles from over 8,000 scholarly and scientific journals.