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National Foundation for Educational Research (UK)
http://www.nfer.ac.uk
Scottish Council for Research in Education: http://
scre.ac.uk
Scottish Council for Research in Education’s
links to electronic journals: http://www.scre.ac.uk/is/
webjournals.html
Washington Educational Research Association
(USA): http://www.wera-web.org/index.html
Researchers wishing to access online journal
indices and references for published research
results (rather than to specific research associations
as in the web sites above) have a variety of web
sites which they can visit, for example:
http://www.leeds.ac.uk/bei (to gain access to the
British Education Index)
http://brs.leeds.ac.uk/∼beiwww/beid.html (the web
site for online searching of the British Educational
Research Association’s archive)
http://www.eera.ac.uk/links5.html (the web site of
the European Educational Research Association that
links to free online journals)
http://www.routledge.com:9996/routledge/journal/
er.html (the web site of Routledge, an international
publisher that provides information on all its research
articles)
http://www.carfax.co.uk (a service provided by a UK
publisher to gain access to the Scholarly Articles
Research Alerting network in the United Kingdom)
http://www.sagepub.co.uk (Sage Publications)
http://www.tandf.co.uk/era/ (Educational Research
Abstracts Online, an alerting service from the
publisher Taylor & Francis)
http://www.journals.routledge.com (Routledge journals)
http://bubl.ac.uk (a UK national information service,
provided for the higher education community)
http://www.scout.cs.wisc.edu/archive (Scout Report
Archives, which locates and provides short
descriptions of several thousand resource sites)
http://www.sosig.ac.uk and http://www.sosog.esrc.
ac.uk (the Social Science Information Gateway,
providing access to worldwide resources and
information)
http://sosig.ac.uk/social science general/social
science methodology) (the Social Science
Information Gateway’s sections on research methods,
both quantitative and qualitative)
http://www.carfax.co.uk/ber-ad.htm (the web site of
the British Educational Research Journal)
http://www.unesco.org/general.eng.infoserv (the
UNESCO web site that provides material for social
science researchers)
http://www.statistics.gov.uk (the UK government’s
official statistics site)
http://wos.mimas.ac.uk (the web site of the Web
of Science, that, among other functions, provides
access to the Social Science Citation Index, the
Science Citation Index and the Arts and Humanities
Citation Index)
http://www.essex.ac.uk (the web site of the data
archive at the University of Essex).
With regard to searching libraries, there are
several useful web sites:
http://www.lights.com/webcats (provides researchers
with links to library catalogues organized by the type
of library and its location)
http://www.loc.gov (the United States Library of
Congress)
http://www.lcweb.loc.gov/z3950 (links to US libraries)
http://www.libdex.com/ (the Library Index web site,
linking to 18,000 libraries)
http://www.copac.ac.uk.copac (this enables researchers
to search major UK libraries)
http://www.bl.uk (the British Library online catalogue)
http://vlib.org/ (the Virtual Library, and provides
online resources).
For checking what is in print, http://www.
booksinprint.com provides a comprehensive
listing of current books in print, while
http://www.bibliofind.com is a site of old,
out-of-print and rare books. The web site
http://www.lights.com links researchers to some
6,000 publishers.
Most journals provide access to abstracts free
online, though access to the full article is usually
by subscription only. Providers of online journals
include, for example (in alphabetical order):
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