The Education Endowment Foundation (EEF) is an independent charity dedicated to breaking the link between family income and educational achievement, ensuring that children and young people from all backgrounds can make the most of their talents.
DfE’s social research aims to provide high-quality evidence to inform policy development and delivery.
Research reports published since May 2010 by the DfE can be found online. For example Identifying Variation in Learner Outcomes by FE Provider Publications prior to May 2010 are available via the National Archives website which is also linked to this page.
The British Educational Research Association (BERA) is the home of educational research in the UK. Aspiring to be the home of all educational researchers in the UK, BERA provides opportunities for everyone active in this field to contribute through its portfolio of distinguished publications. Its ethical guidelines are a useful resource for educational researchers.
BELMAS an independent voice supporting quality education through effective leadership and management.
The Teaching in Lifelong Learning Journal is a peer reviewed journal publishing articles that inform and improve practice in the lifelong learning sector (LLS). It intends to support initial teacher training (ITT) and continuing professional development (CPD) across the wider LLS and within the broader context of higher education (HE).
JSTOR is a digital library for academics, researchers, and students. JSTOR provides independent researchers with free and low-cost access to scholarship. It includes more than 500 free open access monographs.
JSTOR is part of ITHAKA, a not for profit organisation helping the academic community use digital technologies to preserve the scholarly record and to advance research and teaching in sustainable ways.
Through Oxford Open, authors of accepted papers are given the option of paying an open access publication charge to make their paper freely available online immediately via the journal website, meaning that readers will not need a journal subscription to view open access content. If an author does not choose to pay the open access publication charge, their paper will be published in the normal manner, and will not be made freely available online immediately. Therefore there will be a mixture of non-open access and open access papers within each journal.
Educational Research and other publications are available online via Taylor & Francis who publish high quality, rigorously peer-reviewed open access (OA) research across all disciplines.
JISC provides digital solutions for UK education and research.
Content includes topics such as ten search engines for researchers that go beyond google.
The site includes guides to open access for example the introduction to open access.
The site is also useful for those managing research data.
Google Scholar is a freely accessible web search engine. It allows users to search for digital or physical copies of articles, whether online or in libraries. Some of the links are to commercial journal articles and so only an abstract and citation may be freely available.
The site includes helpful tips on searches, email alerts and more.
