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If you're interested in evidence-informed practice, your PLP provides you with access to EBSCO. It's the world’s largest full-text research database for education professionals covering all levels of education and specialities.

There are also a number of open source repositories and databases that offer access to journal articles, books and theses. We’ve listed a number of useful sites to help you.

Aberystwyth Research Portal - the institutional repository of Aberystwyth University.

British Library – catalogue and collections of the UK’s national library.

Cronfa - the institutional repository of Swansea University.

Digital Education Resource Archive (DERA) - a repository of documents published electronically by government and other organisations in the field of education, training, children and families.

Directory of Open Access Books - increases the discoverability of Open Access books.

Directory of Open Access Journals - an online directory that indexes and provides access to quality open access, peer-reviewed journals.

ERIC Institute of Education Services - an online library of education research and information, sponsored by the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) of the U.S. Department of Education.

MESH - aims to connect educators with summaries and sources of educational research.

Monash University Research Repository - the repository, specifically the Faculty of Education papers collection. An open access digital archive of downloadable research publications.

National Library of Wales – catalogue and collections of the national library.

OAPEN Library - freely accessible academic books, mainly in the area of humanities and social science.

Open Book Publishers - high-quality, open access academic research in the Humanities and Social Sciences.

OpenDOAR - a directory of academic open access repositories.

ORCA - a digital repository of Cardiff University's research outputs. The full text of publications is made freely available where possible.

ORO – the Open University repository, which contains over 30,000 research outputs.

Oxford University Research Archive - the institutional repository for the University of Oxford.

Springer Open - a place to publish open access in journals and books for researchers from all areas of science, technology, medicine, the humanities and social sciences.

Wales Journal of Education - open access, bilingual journal publishing local and international research on education policy and practice in Wales, under academic and practitioner strands.

Wiley Open - a programme of fully open access journals.

Youthworkwales - the leading information resource for youth work in wales. The aim of the site is to provide practitioners, students and managers of youth work in Wales with a range of historical and current information which will help develop thinking and practice.

Dr Jane Waters and her team at the University of Wales Trinity Saint David have produced ethics resources on our behalf. Accompanying video material has been produced with the support of Olchfa School.

The series of PowerPoint presentations and videos will give you an overview of some of the key ethical considerations when undertaking close to practice research and will provide you with some illustrative scenarios and further reading on the subject

Download the ethics presentations and resources.

Have a look at how ethical decision-making is applied in an educational research context. In this series of videos, you will learn how Olchfa School have addressed some of the ethical issues whilst undertaking research in a secondary school setting.

Video 1: iCalculate

Video 2: iDiscover

Video 3: iThink

Video 4: iCalculate

How to...write an action research report

There is no prescribed format for writing an action research report. It depends on your intended audience and your educational context. However, there are some key elements which are common to most action research report structures.

Read our guide to writing a research report.

How to…set up a journal club

Journal clubs are meetings which are held on a regular basis where individuals with similar interests get together to discuss recent articles and academic literature. They aim to bridge the gap between research and practice and promote discussion about how to evaluate and apply research. Learn about the basics of setting up a journal club and how to make the most of the ESBCO resource you have access to as an EWC registrant.

Read our guide to setting up a journal club.

Download the journal club evaluation sheet.

In this area you will find our new material which focuses on the basics about getting started with close to practice research which has been produced by Aberystwyth University.

In this series of videos, Dr Andrew Davies will talk you through some of the key things you need to consider when undertaking a research project, including identifying the subject of your research, conducting a literature review, research methodology, analysing your data and drawing conclusions.

An introduction to conducting a research or enquiry project

Reviewing the literature and evidence

Methodologies and methods

Making sense of data and drawing conclusions