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If you search the web long enough, you will probably find any educational material you want. There is, however, an easier way. Use specific education search engines. These will find research material, material from specific countries, policies, planning and more. Some provide access to resources from lesson plans to units of work with all materials required to complete them.
This page gives access to numerous education search engines. The first group of these contains special search resources with a second group providing additional options.
We are happy to consider further inclusions.
Other Search Engines
| ACEReSearch | ‘ACEReSearch contains ACER’s research available in digital form, including, reports, working papers, conference papers, and more. For items only available in print, search the Cunningham Library catalogue’. |
| All Academic Research | ‘Welcome to the research home page. You can find research documents by searching or select from the menu on the left side of the page to find free journals and additional resources’. |
| AEShareNet | ‘Connects people who are looking for learning materials with those who own them’. 23 000+ registered learning materials. |
| Australasian Education Directory Online | ‘A concise accurate guide to educational institutions and related organisations, listing over 700 organisations’. You need to be able to log in. |
| British Education Index | ‘A freely accessible database of the full text of conference papers, working papers and electronic literature which supports educational research, policy and practice’. Some subscription services. Previously known as Education-line |
| Educational Evidence Portal | ‘This portal helps you find educational evidence from a range of reputable sources using a single search. It is designed for both professional and lay people interested in education. The search will retrieve documents from the websites of all the organisations associated with EEP that contain any of the words you have entered’. UK based. |
| Education World | Search areas from lesson planning, professional development, administration, technology integration to school issues among others. |
| Education Search Engine [Swicki] | ‘A search engine for everything related to education and culture. Swickis are a cross between search engines and Wikipedia - the community can add, delete and improve the results’. |
| EduSearch | ‘One of the most comprehensive search portals dedicated to providing information from across all of Australia’s educational institutions … ’. |
| ERIC Education Resources Information Center | ‘An online digital library of education research and information. ERIC is sponsored by the Institute of Education Sciences [IES] of the U.S. Department of Education. ERIC provides ready access to education literature to support the use of educational research and information to improve practice in learning, teaching, educational decision-making, and research’. |
| InfoMine | Search ‘Scholarly Internet Resource Collections’. Browse for specific information or search by subject categories. |
| Lesson Planet® | ‘Lesson plans, worksheets, articles, standards, more’. Previously listed as Education Planet. |
| SearchEdu.com | SearchEdu has over 15 million university and education pages indexed and ranked in order of popularity. |
More Education Search Engines
- Academic Index
‘A scholarly academic search engine accessing only websites previously selected by librarians, teachers and library and educational consortia’. - Academicinfo
‘An independent online subject directory of over 25 000 hand-picked educational resources for high school and college students as well as a directory of online degree programs and admissions test preparation resources’. US-based. - Australian Digital Theses Program
‘The aim of the ADT program is to establish a distributed database of digital versions of theses produced by the postgraduate research students at Australian universities. The ideal behind the program is to provide access to, and promote Australian research to the international community’. -
Awesome Library
Access masses of information and resources for K-12 education. - California Learning Resource Network
‘Find and compare electronic learning resources and Free web information links !’ - Content Standard
‘A compendium of content standards and benchmarks for K-12 education in both searchable and browsable formats’. - Directory Search [Australia]
‘Education covers everything from early childhood education, online courses and languages, to education policies, programs, and even financial aid. Websites found in this category will assist you with any educational matters you may be searching for’. - DiscoverEd
‘Discover the Universe of Open Educational Resources’. Previously only a demo, now fully launched. - EBSCO
Library information. Fee-based. - EdResearch Online
‘EdResearch Online is a database of over 31 500 articles from more than 200 Australian education journals. These records are from the Australian Education Index. Articles are fee-based. In some cases articles are available for free download direct from the publishers website’. - Educating.net
Education portal for all quality educational services on the Internet, including K-12, college & university, professional development, fun learning, library references, continuing education and more. - Education Search Engines
Annotated links to a range of search engines from Search Engine Guide. -
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Annotated links to a range of search engines from Search Engine Guide. - EducatorsNet
‘The World’s #1 Education Search Engine. Over 10 000 Reviewed Listings and Growing !’ Presently being reconstructed. Search facilities are not affected.. - ed-u.com, The Transatlantic Education Mega-Site
‘Ed-u.com is a huge education resource that has moved all of the Web addresses that you will ever need, to just one address’. - EduFind
Language Resources & information. - Facing the Test
Online tests. - Gateway to 21st Century Skills
Welcome to GEM. US Department of Education. Thousands of resources and links. Many ways of narrowing your search - subjects, type, level, keyword, … - Google Scholar
‘Simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature : peer-reviewed papers,theses, books, abstracts and articles, from academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories, universities and other scholarly organisations’. - iSeek Education
‘A targetted search engine for students, teachers, administrators and caregivers’. - Kathy Schrock’s Guide for Educators
‘Categorised list of sites useful for enhancing curriculum and professional growth’. - Microsoft Academic Search
Multiple areas for Natural Science, Life Science, Others. More than 27 million publications and 16 million authors included. - National Center for Education Statistics
More along the lines of DMOZ than Google, covering ‘collecting and analysing data related to education’. US data. - OER Commons
‘A global teaching and learning network of free-to-use resources - from K-12 lesson plans to college courseware’. - PedagoNet
‘Learning Material & Resource Centre’. - Proquest
Dissertation abstracts database. - ReadWriteThink
Internet content for the classroom. Previously Marco Polo then Thinkfinity. - RefSeek - Academic Search Engine
‘RefSeek is a web search engine for students and researchers that aims to make academic information easily accessible to everyone. RefSeek searches more than one billion documents, including web pages, books, encyclopaedias, journals, and newspapers’. - Searchquarium
‘Custom Education Search Engines for Grade Levels, Subject Areas, and Instructional Technology Topics,’ - The Educator’s Reference Desk
‘2 000+ lesson plans, 3 000+ links to online education information, and 200+ question archive responses’. - The Infography
‘This reference tool enables a student, librarian, or teacher to identify superlative sources of information about a subject of inquiry, viewed through the lens of expert opinion’. - The What Works Clearinghouse : Topic Areas
‘A central and trusted source of scientific evidence for what works in education’ US based. You can check Topic Areas and Practice Guides plus more.