Guides @ UF: Engineering Education &amp; Research: Searching the Literature

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In addition to engineering databases like Engineering Village (ACCESS ENDS 12/31/24) and IEEE Explore, UF has many education-related databases.

ERIC (ProQuest) This link opens in a new window
This database is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education to provide extensive access to education-related literature. ERIC provides coverage of journal articles, conferences, meetings, government documents, theses, dissertations, reports, audiovisual media, bibliographies, directories, books and monographs.
Education Source This link opens in a new window
Contains thousands of education journal articles, books and education-related conference papers. Coverage spans all levels of education and includes educational specialties such as multilingual education, health education and testing.
**You can search Education Source, & Professional Development Collection together in EBSCO by clicking on the "Choose Database" option**
Education Database This link opens in a new window
Contains literature on the study and application of education across all levels of education, including early childhood education, primary and secondary education, and higher education.
Professional Development Collection This link opens in a new window
Specialized information for professional educators.
**You can search Education Source, & Professional Development Collection together in EBSCO by clicking on the "Choose Database" option**
Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection This link opens in a new window
Covers Anthropology, Emotional and behavioral characteristics, Mental processes, Observational and experimental methods, and Psychiatry and psychology.
PsycINFO (on EBSCOHost online platform) 1887-Current This link opens in a new window
Databases devoted to peer-reviewed literature in behavioral science and mental health.
Sociological Abstracts This link opens in a new window
Contains international literature on sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences.
Mental Measurements Yearbook with Tests in Print This link opens in a new window
Contains full-text reviews for test products in psychology, education, business and leadership. In addition, it provides a bibliography to all known commercially available English-language tests currently in print.
Scopus This link opens in a new window
Scopus is a multidisciplinary abstract and citation database with a powerful search interface. In addition to records of over 84 million scholarly publications, it also includes author and institutional profiles.
Web of Science This link opens in a new window
This multidisciplinary database covers all STEM and social sciences. A good mix when looking for articles in engineering education!
Dimensions Analytics This link opens in a new window
ENTER YOUR UFL EMAIL and then LOG IN WITH YOUR GATORLINK. Dimensions Analytics is a comprehensive scholarly database where you can search publications, grants, patents, clinical trials, datasets, and policy documents. Courtesy of UF Research.

Looking for Computer Science education resources?

See the Computer Science Education guide.

Conference Papers, Preprints, and Other Documents

ASEE PEER
The American Society for Engineering Education's conference paper repository.
Full text from 1996 - present
EdArXiv
EdArXiv (Education Archive) is a free, open source, non-profit service that allows researchers to post and search working papers, unpublished work, conference materials, and articles under review (preprints).
Frontiers of Engineering Education (National Academy of Engineering)
The Frontiers of Engineering Education (FOEE) Symposium brings together some of the nation’s most engaged and innovative engineering educators in order to recognize, reward, and promote effective, substantive, and inspirational engineering education.

Books and E-Books

The best way to find books and E-books is to use the Primo search tool. This tool searches across many of our resources, including the UF Libraries catalog. Click on the red buttons below to learn more about how to search in Primo.

Some e-book services for engineering:

Access Engineering

A collection of engineering books and textbooks from McGraw-Hill.

ENGnetBASE

ENGnetBASE has handbooks in civil, mechanical, electrical, industrial, and mining engineering from CRC Press.

IEEE-Wiley eBooks

This collection focuses on electrical engineering and includes Bioengineering, Power & Energy, and Communication technologies as well as other growing areas of research.

Knovel

Knovel has handbooks, encyclopedias, reference books, and standards from the world's leading publishers and professional societies in engineering, biotechnology, life sciences, chemistry and materials. Knovel's productivity tools, (including interactive tables, graphs and live equations) allow users to work within Knovel to analyze the data they find.

Engineering Education & Research