ProQuest One Education 

CONTENT ProQuest One Education offers education students, researchers, teachers, and faculty members access to an array of multiformat content centered on education-related literature and research. Curated materials cover a range of subjects, including research concepts, statistics, testing, learning theories, theorists, teaching methods, technology, policies, curriculum, and leadership. Content includes over 1,000 full-text scholarly journals, including Harvard Educational Review, Young Children, and Language Teaching. Additionally, researchers can access over 12,500 books on topics including education philosophy, educational leadership, curriculum planning, and effective teaching; over 160,000 research reports addressing subjects like building and construction, special education, and public administration; unique content from more than 110,000 dissertations; over 200,000 news articles; blogs, podcasts, websites, and conference papers and proceedings; and over 5,500 videos of teaching demonstrations, lectures, documentaries, and students and teachers in classroom settings. The resource indexes all content from the Education Resource and Information Center (ERIC) database, sponsored by the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) of the U.S. Department of Education.

USABILITY The database’s homepage features a top navigation menu with options for basic and advanced searching, accessing the complete list of publications, and browsing. The prominent search bar allows for narrowing searches by source type (scholarly journals, books, videos and audio, dissertations and theses), with additional options for specifying full-text or peer-reviewed materials. Once a search term is entered, users can filter the results using facets in the left-hand navigation menu. These allow for limiting by source type, publication date, publication title, author, document type, subject, research methodology, company or organization, person, location, language, and content type.

ProQuest One Education offers a robust set of options for users who are browsing rather than conducting targeted searches. The homepage allows users to explore trending topics (e.g., hate crimes in schools, guns, school vouchers, students experiencing homelessness, and the Americans with Disabilities Act) through conveniently located buttons underneath the main search bar. These buttons lead to topic pages, which list related resources, suggest relevant publications, and provide a graph showing the number of relevant sources published over time. Users can search within this page using a keyword search or by inputting any of the suggested search terms at the top of the page.

The homepage also allows users to browse by areas of research (curriculum and instruction, education technology, diversity and inclusion, psychology and counseling). Title tiles provide opportunities to browse journals, books, and videos; theorist tiles offer ready access to topic pages for individual theorists. This information can also be accessed through the browse function at the top of the homepage, but the tiles are especially user-friendly and engaging.

PRICING Pricing for the resource varies and is based on factors such as but not limited to the type of institution, geographic location, and the size of the specific location(s).

VERDICT With an intuitive layout and exceptional content, ProQuest One Education offers a wealth of information for education students, researchers, and teachers. An excellent resource for those beginning their journey in education or users conducting upper-level searches, this database is highly recommended for any institution with undergraduate or graduate education programs.