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A collection of organisations offering research papers or information on research in the field of education.

BERA

The British Education Research Association aims to sustain and promote a vital research culture in education. The website provides access to recent online research papers which are available to download.

 

CERUK
A database of current educational research projects in the United Kingdom. It covers all phases of education from early years to adults and features a wide range of studies including commissioned research and PhD level theses. CERUK has not been updated since 2009 and so will not reflect the most recent research but is still a useful archive resource.

 

The DART-Europe E-theses Portal (DEEP)

DART-Europe is a partnership of research libraries and library consortia who are working together to improve global access to European research theses. DEEP currently provides information on over 290,000 doctoral theses from 411 universities, some of which are available to download.

 

DERA

The UK Digital Education Repository Archive (DERA) is a digital archive of all documents published electronically by government and related bodies in the area of education. Their aim is to create a coherent, inclusive fully searchable digital archive in the subject area of education, making it permanently and freely accessible to all.

 

The "Digital Repository Infrastructure Vision for European Research" (DRIVER)

A network of freely accessible digital repositories with content across academic disciplines with over 3,500,000 scientific publications, found in journal articles, dissertations, books, lectures, reports, etc., harvested regularly from more than 295 repositories, from 38 countries.

 

General Teaching Council for Northern Ireland

The General Teaching Council for Northern Ireland (GTCNI) is the independent, self-regulatory body established to represent the professional interests of teachers. The Access to Research Resources for Teachers (ARRT) is an educational research database making relevant publications available to educational professionals.

 

Intute

Intute was a free online service providing access to Web resources for education and research. The service was created by a network of UK universities and partners. The database contains 114034 records. Please note that the site has now been archived and closed for updates since July 2011.


Irish History Online

Irish History Online is an authoritative guide (in progress) to what has been written about Irish history from earliest times to the present. It currently contains over 77,500 bibliographic records (May 2012). It also has links to over 30 external sources.

 

National Children's Bureau
The NCB epublishing programme centres on a growing portfolio of websites, free resources email services and multimedia products. The website has a section on all aspects of education and a free eschools bulletin.

 

National Foundation for Educational Research

NFER works with a range of organisations, from national government to local authorities,charities and private sector companies. The research areas include Assessment, Statistical analysis, International comparisons, Information and reviews, Evaluations and Consultancy work. We also run data collection, test trialling and survey administration services, and a range of omnibus and panel surveys.

 

Research Guide for Students

This American site provides a Quick Click to Search Engines, annotated Research, Writing, and Style Guides (MLA, APA, Chicago, Turabian, CGOS, CBE, Harvard), and Worlds of Knowledge housing some of the best education Web sites in a Virtual Library. The site also provides guidelines on: How to write an A+ research paper, How to effectively deliver a presentation, How to format a research or term paper, how to quote passages, how not to plagiarize and how to write Footnotes and Endnotes with examples.

 

RIAN

Rian is the outcome of a higher education project supported by the Irish government carried out by the seven Irish university libraries. The project aim is provide one portal for the institutional repositories of the seven universities to make Irish research material more freely acessible. Full text links are provided to journal articles, masters and doctoral theses, books, book chapters and conference papers.

 

Teaching and Learning Research Programme

Education research for the improvement of teaching and learning. This website illustrates the Programme’s generic work from 1999 to 2009. TLRP-TEL continues to 2015. Publications are available to download or print.

 

Technology Enhanced Learning

TEL is a UK £12m ESRC/EPSRC funded programme running from 2007-2012. The 8 projects look at ways in which technology can be used to improve learner outcomes.