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Adult Education & Development: Journal Articles

Library and selected high quality web resources for research and self-study in the fields of adult learning, adult literacy and basic skills training, learning in organizations, androgogy, transformative learning, and adult development.

Searching for a topic? Use databases.

Education Source
Articles on education. Help using Education Source.
Help getting a permalink in Education Source.
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ERIC
Articles and reports on education, learning and child development. Help using ERIC.
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LearnTechLib
Formerly called EdITLib.
Over 100,000 peer-reviewed documents relating to Learning and Technology.
Academic Search Complete
Scholarly and non-scholarly articles in all subjects.
Help using Academic Search Complete.
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EBSCOhost Accessibility Help
ProQuest Research Library
Scholarly and popular articles in all subjects. This is a great place to start your research. Help using ProQuest Research Library.
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Google Scholar
You now need to go into Settings to get ESC library fulltext through Google Scholar. Please check out the Google Scholar how to for new instructions!
Know the title of the article you're looking for? Use this tool to search for it (in quotes.) You can also use this tool to search for scholarly articles across multiple databases and in institutional repositories. Help using Google Scholar.

E-Journals A-Z
Know the name of the journal? This tool lets you enter the journal's title into the search box and shows you the databases that have articles from that journal.

What are scholarly/peer reviewed articles?

In scholarly/peer reviewed articles:

Author is an expert in the subject
Content is evaluated by other experts before publication
All information sources are cited

Some databases have all scholarly material. Others have an option to search for only scholarly/peer-reviewed articles.

Anatomy of a Scholarly Article
Interactive web site lets you look at different parts of a scholarly article so that you can recognize one when you see one, and know how to take it apart for meaning. From North Carolina State University.
Peer Review in 3 Minutes

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Citing Your Sources
A collection of web sites that will help you cite your sources (aka document your sources, make footnotes and bibliography.)
Searching for Information Sources: Keywords and Concept Chart
Searching for Information Sources: Boolean Operators

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