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Adult & Community Education

Journals & Databases

Top recommended Journals for Adult & Community Education

  1. Administrative Issues Journal: Education, Practice & Research Features articles on current issues in Administration with a particular focus on education, practice, and research.
  2. AISHE-J: The All Ireland Journal of Teaching & Learning in Higher Education A journal of scholarly research into Teaching and Learning in Higher Education.
  3. Applied Measurement in Education The Prime objective is to improve communication between academicians and practitioners. To help bridge the gap between theory and practice
  4. Adult education quarterly (American Association for Adult and Continuing education) is a quarterly scholarly referred journal committed to advancing the understanding of adult education.
  5. The adult learner: the Irish journal of adult and community education focuses on adult education in the Irish context.

How to reference a Journal Article

(in the Harvard style)

In-Text Reference: used when you are quoting or paraphrasing a source in the body of your essay. It follows an author-date format. The above reference would appear as (Markey, 2008) in-text.

For more information on how to reference online resources see our Referencing Guide
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What is Peer Review?

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“The evaluation of scientific, academic, or professional work by others working in the same field” – Oxford English Dictionary

You are expected to use Peer Review research in your work.

Explore Peer Review in more detail in our Successful Searching Guide.

Journals & Databases

What are they?

Journal: An academic journal is a specialist publication where academics and researchers can publish and communicate their work. A journal publishes articles, research papers and reviews of a high quality that have been reviewed by experts in the subject.

Databases: Library databases contain information about published academic research. Like journals, they contain peer reviewed articles but also reports, datasets, facts and figures, theses and dissertations and all manner of academic information related to your subject.

Using journals and databases should form part of your Search Strategy. For more information, see our Successful Searching Guide.

It is important for students and researchers of Subject to have access to the latest peer review research. On this page, you can find the library’s most recommended journals and databases for Subject.

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Featured Adult & Community Education Database

ERIC

A very comprehensive site with access to ERIC’s databases, all clearinghouses, publications, ERIC’s digests, information services and updates from the system.

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