Research and analysis
Learning technology in adult english, maths and ESOL provision NFER data - final - November 2014
Updated 11 December 2014
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| Table B?1: The databases included in the search strategy | ||
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| Applied Social Sciences Index and Abstracts (ASSIA) | This is an index of over 600 international English language social science journals, which provides unique coverage of educational and developmental aspects of children. | searched via CSA |
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| Australian Education Index (AEI) | AEI is Australia’s largest source of education information covering reports, books, journal articles, online resources, conference papers and book chapters. | searched via Dialog Datastar 03/03/14 |
| British Education Index (BEI) | BEI provides information on research, policy and practice in education and training in the UK. Sources include over 300 journals, mostly published in the UK, plus other material including reports, series and conference papers. | searched via Dialog Datastar 20/02/14 |
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| The Cochrane Library | The Cochrane Library is a collection of six databases that contain different types of high-quality, independent evidence to inform healthcare decision-making. | searched 11/03/14 |
| Dissertation Abstracts | The most comprehensive collection of dissertations and theses | searched via Proquest 13/03/14 |
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| Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) | ERIC is sponsored by the United States Department of Education and is the largest education database in the world. Coverage includes research documents, journal articles, technical reports, program descriptions and evaluations and curricula material. | searched via Dialog Datastar 24/02/14 |
| Emerald | Emerald is a long established publisher with over 200 titles in the fields of management, information science and engineering. | searched via Emerald 13/03/14 |
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| Greynet | The Grey Literature Network Service, including the OpenGrey repository, containing over 700,000 bibliographical references to grey literature produced in Europe. | searched 11/03/14 |
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| Idox Information Service | The IDOX Information Service covers all aspects of local government. Key areas of focus include public sector management, economic development, planning, housing, social services, regeneration, education, and environmental services. | searched 11/03/14 |
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| IoE Digital Education Resource Archive | The IOE UK Digital Education Repository Archive (DERA) is a digital archive of documents published electronically by government and other relevant bodies in the areas of education, training, children and families. | searched 11/03/14 |
| Open Grey | OpenGrey is a multidisciplinary European database, covering science, technology, biomedical science, economics, social science and humanities | searched 11/03/14 |
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| PsycInfo | PsycINFO contains references to the psychological literature including articles from over 1,300 journals in psychology and related fields, chapters and books, dissertations and technical reports.. | searched via Ovid SP 20/02/14 |
| Social Policy and Practice | Social Policy and Practice is a bibliographic database with abstracts covering evidence-based social policy, public health, social services, and mental and community health. Content is from the UK with some material from the USA and Europe. Searches were carried out across the descriptors, heading word, title and abstract fields, to enable retrieval of terms both as keywords and free text. | searched via Ovid SP 5/03/14 |
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| Social Science Citation Index | Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI) is an interdisciplinary citation index covering approximately 2,474 of the world's leading journals of social sciences, across more than 50 disciplines | searched via Thomson Reuters Web of Science 11/03/14 |
| Social Science Research Network (SSRN) | Social Science Research Network (SSRN) is devoted to the rapid worldwide dissemination of social science research and is composed of a number of specialised research networks in each of the social sciences. | searched via SSRN |
| Not set | Not set | 13/04/14 |