Articles (Higher Education topic) - ENG 112: College Composition II: Argument Essay & Literary Analysis Essay - (Purugganan - AL) - LibGuides at Northern Virginia Community College

Article Databases for Higher Education Research

Use the databases below to find magazine, newspaper, and journal articles on a wide range of topics.

To find scholarly journal articles only, be sure to check a box titled "refereed", "scholarly" or "peer reviewed".

Education Research Complete (EBSCO)
Has over 1800 journals that cover all aspects of education including multilingual education, health education, testing, curriculum instruction, administration, policy, funding, and all levels of education from early childhood to higher education.
Academic Search Complete (EBSCO)
Magazine and journal articles on a wide range of topics. To add more resources, including in the education area, select "Choose databases".
ProQuest Research Library & Global Newsstream
Magazine, newspaper, and scholarly journal articles

Search Tips

Use the ideas in the essays your professor has assigned (e.g., "College Is a Waste of Time and Money," "Two Years Are Better than Four", etc.) to identify specific topics to search for.
Once you've identified an idea, select the most important 2-3 words - these are the Keywords you will type in the search box.

For example, in the "Two Years Are Better..." article, one argument the author makes is that community colleges can be a springboard to earning a Bachelor's degree. Using that idea, you could search for articles specifically on community colleges and Bachelor's degree.

Put the word AND between each new word or idea; this tells the database to look for resources with ALL your terms. Quotation marks tell the database to search for those words together as a phrase.

"community college" AND "bachelor's degree"

As you search in the database and look at your results, you may see other related terms that you could use, especially in the official "Subjects" that have been assigned to the articles. For example, the "community college" AND "bachelor's degree" list of results led to these additional, related searches (and each time you change the words in the search box you will get different results):

"community college" AND "educational outcomes" AND students
"community college" AND "economic goals" AND students
"community college" AND success AND students
"community college" AND "educational equalization" AND students
"community college" AND "academic achievement" AND students
"community college" AND benefits AND success

When you get your list of results, use filters:
- Full Text, to ensure you can view the complete text of the article
- Source Type/Scholarly Articles
- Publication Date