LibGuides: Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Resource Guide (Centre for Learning & Teaching): Find articles & search databases

Recommended databases for SoTL and educational research

ERIC (Educational Resources Information Centre) - ProQuest
PROQUEST VERSION *Key database for Education. Contains documents and journal literature from over 775 periodicals in education. Video tutorial on searching with the ProQuest platform
Dissertations & Theses (ProQuest)
Dissertations and theses provide great insights into new research and questions in SoTL. The also have extensive bibliographies that can be consulted for further reading.
Taylor and Francis Online
Over 1,600 scholarly journals spanning all areas of the Humanities, Social Sciences, Science and Technology. A great resource for education scholarship.
Google Scholar
Search for academic sources using the Google search engine. To learn how to configure Google Scholar to access the most material, watch this quick video.
Project Muse
Search across all Project Muse titles for citations and articles of interest. Full-text of articles is available to only Dalhousie users
PsycINFO
*Key database for Psychology*. Covers the academic, research and practice literature in psychology from over 45 countries in more than 30 languages. PsycINFO is a good place to search for information about assessment instruments. Video tutorial on searching with the Ebsco platform
Academic Search Premier
Comprehensive academic multi-disciplinary database, Academic Search Premier provides full text for nearly 4,650 serials, including full text for more than 3,600 peer-reviewed titles. Video tutorial on searching with the Ebsco platform
Sociological Abstracts
*Key database for Sociology* Provides access to the world's literature in sociology and related disciplines, both theoretical and applied. Video tutorial on searching with the ProQuest platform

Google Custom Search: Canadian academic sources
Created by Mount Royal University, this Google custom search will help target grey literature associated with Canadian academic institutions.

SoTL searching tips

Be open to reading and engaging with literature that is different from that of your discipline. You might have to search differently than you have in the past, use different terms, and be open to new methods and article styles.
Make use of the "Cited by" function in Google Scholar to find more relevant information
Remember that "not all SoTL work makes it into scholarly literature" (MacMillan, 2016), so don't forget to search the public web for grey literature.
- pairing allintitle: with your keywords in Google can help narrow your results
- try regional domain names, e.g. "undergraduate research" site:edu (for U.S.), "undergraduate research" site:ac.uk (for U.K.), "undergraduate research" site:edu.au (for Australia). Try this Google custom search (created at Mount Royal University) for Canadian academic content.

Credit: Margy MacMillan (cited in Chick, 2016)