Guides: Education: Books, Theses & More

Tests & measurements

Mental Measurements Yearbook with Tests in Print (EBSCO) This link opens in a new window
Produced by the Buros Institute at the University of Nebraska, provides users with a comprehensive guide to over 2,000 contemporary testing instruments. It contains full-text reviews for test products in psychology, education, business and leadership, and provides a bibliography to all known commercially available English-language tests currently in print. Actual tests are not provided.

Theses & Dissertations

Theses Canada Portal This link opens in a new window
Full text electronic versions of Canadian theses and dissertations that were published since 1998.
MSVU e-Commons: MSVU Graduate Theses This link opens in a new window
Full-text versions of graduate theses produced at MSVU since 2006. Includes theses from Education, Family Studies & Gerontology, Applied Human Nutrition, Women and Gender studies, Child and Youth Study, and Public Relations.
Open Access Theses and Dissertations This link opens in a new window
An index providing access to over 1 million full-text open access graduate theses and dissertations from institutions in Canada, United States, and all over the world.
EBSCO Open Dissertations This link opens in a new window
OpenDissertations is an open-access database built to assist researchers in locating both historic and contemporary dissertations and theses.
Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations This link opens in a new window
The NDLTD Union Catalog contains more than one million records of electronic theses and dissertations. For students and researchers, the Union Catalog makes individual collections of NDLTD member institutions and consortia appear as one seamless digital library of ETDs.
EThOS ( Electronic Theses Online Service) This link opens in a new window
The aim of the Electronic Theses Online Service (EThOS) is to maximise the availability and visibility of UK doctoral theses via a single web interface. It does this by providing both high quality metadata and, where possible, access to the full text either by downloading a PDF directly from EThOS or by following a link to the institutional repository.

Subject Databases
Many of our subject databases (including ERIC, PsycInfo, Ageline, MLA, SocIndex, Historical Abstracts/America: History & Life, Child Development & Adolescent Studies, Gender Studies) provide indexing of select dissertations.

Degree-granting institution
Check the home institution for an online repository/archive. More and more theses and dissertations are being made available in open access format.

Google Scholar This link opens in a new window
An academic search engine

Research related

Centre for Educational Research and Innovation (CERI)
CERI publishes Trends Shaping Education
Community Research Canada
Network of people and organizations engaged in Community-Based Research to meet the needs of people and communities.

E-books and other online collections

ProQuest Ebook Central (now includes MyiLibrary) This link opens in a new window
A comprehensive collection of close to 366,000 electronic books, the majority scholarly in content, in all subject areas. Includes the Canadian Electronic Library Publishers Collection. Login required on and off campus.
EBSCO Ebook Collection This link opens in a new window
Titles from a broad range of academic subject and topic areas
Canada Commons This link opens in a new window Formerly the desLibris collection, contains 8,000+ English and French ebooks from 47 Canadian publishers including the major Canadian university and scholarly presses.
Indigenous Peoples: North America (Gale) This link opens in a new window
This archive of primary sources includes monograph, manuscript, newspaper, periodical and photograph collections.
Past Masters (CRKN - Intelex ) This link opens in a new window
The full-text of the collected works and correspondence of the intellectual giants from ancient Greece to the 20th century. John Dewey is included among the philosophers of education.
Erudit: Promoting and Disseminating Research (CRKN) This link opens in a new window
Note: You may need to request document delivery for some items.
Canadian research on the humanities, social sciences and natural sciences published in either French or English in a collection of 59 academic journals, and ebooks, theses.
Music Online: Smithsonian Global Sound (CRKN - Alexander Street Press) This link opens in a new window
An international collection of musical and aural traditions.

Academic Commons
A collection of essays on New Media Technologies and the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning,

New Education Books @ Mount Library

The BERA/SAGE Handbook of Educational Research by Dominic Wyse (Editor); Neil Selwyn (Editor); Emma Smith (Editor); Larry E. Suter (Editor)
ISBN: 9781473918917
Publication Date: 2017-01-25
Education has continued to grow in stature and significance as an academic discipline. In addition to world renowned research studies the growth of education has been seen in the methodology and methods underpinning its research. The BERA/SAGE Handbook of Educational Research provides a cutting edge account of the research and methodology that is creating new understandings for education research, policy and practice. Over two volumes, the handbook addresses educational research in six essential components: Section 1: Understanding Research Section 2: Planning Research Section 3: Approaches to Research Section 4: Acquiring Data Section 5: Analysing Data Section 6: Reporting, Disseminating and Evaluating Research Featuring contributions from more than 50 of the biggest names in the international field, The BERA/SAGE Handbook of Educational Research represents a very significant contribution to the development of education.

Education

ERIC documents

Dictionaries & Encyclopedias

Tests & measurements

Theses & Dissertations

Research related

E-books and other online collections

New Education Books @ Mount Library