Overview of Doctor of Education Resources

Welcome to the Research Guide for Delaware Valley University's graduate education resources. Please use the menu to navigate. Contact Elise Georgulis, Graduate Instruction and Research Librarian, with any questions.

Research Assistance

Library staff members are always willing and eager to help you with your assignments.  Please contact us by email, phone, or text message, and we will respond to your questions as soon as possible.

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Check out our Research Guide dedicated to eBook Central Education eBooks.

Check out these web resources:

You can browse through education journals and newspapers for topic ideas, or go straight to journals if you are looking for an article that you know was published in a specific journal. Go to our journal list here to search for specific journals/newspapers and find out if we subscribe to them!

Some journals/newspapers you might find useful that we do subscribe to:

• Education Leadership
• Education Week
• Bulletin of Education & Research
• Action in Teacher Education
• Administrative Issues Journal: Education, Practice, and Research
• Advances in Education
• International Electronic Journal of Elementary Education
• Education and The Law
• Journal of Law & Education

If you have answered "yes" to these five questions you have probably located a scientific article.

Research articles are also often known as scientific or peer-reviewed articles. If the article is NOT written by the person or group who did the research, it is NOT a peer-reviewed or scientific article. Research articles are important for knowing what new discoveries have been made. This is why it is important to use recent articles, since they will be the first things published on a new scientific development. 

Here's a quick overview of how to identify these journal articles:

• written by the scientist(s) who actually did the research
• follows a specific format 
  • abstract
  • introduction
  • materials & methods
  • results
  • conclusions
  • references 
• assumes reader already knows background information about the topic has been evaluated by experts
• Tip:  Look for a statement about when the article was accepted for publication. Most peer-reviewed articles will include one.

If a book or article you want is not available, use Interlibrary Loan (ILL). The Library can order books and articles from other libraries. This process takes few days but is completely free for DelVal students, faculty, and staff.

Before you submit an ILL, check Google Scholar or Summon to see if we have immediate access or if it is freely available online.

Krauskopf Memorial Library is switching from Refworks to Mendeley Reference Manager on June 1, 2026.

Please take time to learn about Mendeley Reference Manager and import your RefWorks library into Mendeley before June 1.

RefWorks is a new way to collect, manage, and organize research.  You can read, annotate, organize, and cite your research as well as collaborate by sharing collections.

From simple bibliographies to papers formatted with in-text citations or footnotes, RefWorks handles it all. ​To learn more about RefWorks, use our RefWorks research guide.

If you need to move all your references out of RefWorks, you have two options: 1) export all references and 2) export references by folder.

1. Export all references

The method described here will export all of your citations without the folders that are present in your RefWorks account.

1. Log into your RefWorks account
2. On the top menu bar, select References then select Export
3. In the dialog box, specify whether you want to export only selected references, all the references in the page, or all references
4. Select the output option that matches the manager that you are moving to (see box below). Note: A new browser window may open containing your references. You can disregard this window and move to the next step
5. When ready, RefWorks will display a green box that reads Completed at the bottom right of the screen, with a link to download or a link to email the file

2. Export references by folder

When exporting all your citations from RefWorks, you may want to preserve your folder structure. The method described here will export your citations by folder.

1. Log into your RefWorks account
2. Click on the Organize & Share Folders tab in your References list
3. From the listing of folders, click on the folder icon (to the right of the folder name at the end of the row) and select the option to Export
4. Select the output option that matches the manager that you are moving to (see box below). Note: A new browser window may open containing your references. You can disregard this window and move to the next step
5. Repeat these steps for each folder. You may want to rename your export files to their original folder names so you can keep them organized
6. When ready, RefWorks will display a green box that reads Completed on the bottom right of the screen, with a link to download or a link to email the file

Export formats needed by citation manager

Krauskopf Memorial Library is switching from Refworks to Mendeley Reference Manager on June 1, 2026. Please take time to learn about Mendeley and import your RefWorks library into Mendeley before June 1. Please contact the library with questions. 

Mendeley Reference Manager is a web-based tool that streamlines the process of collecting, organizing, and citing research sources. It allows you to build and manage your personal reference library, take notes and annotate articles, collaborate with others, and insert citations and bibliographies directly into your writing. 

With Mendeley Reference Manager, you can:

• Create and maintain a personal database of citations, including importing and organizing PDFs

• Insert in-text citations and automatically generate bibliographies

• Share citations and annotated full-text articles with other Mendeley users

• Collaborate by joining or creating groups to share citations and selected articles

To obtain Mendeley, Register for an Account

You will need an account to use Mendeley. 

To manage your references and build your library:

• Download Mendeley Reference Manager

To insert citations and bibliographies into your Word document:

• Install Mendeley Cite

Mendeley Cite works with Microsoft Office 365, Microsoft Word 2016 or later, and the Microsoft Word app for iPads. For earlier versions of Word, you can use the Mendeley Citation Plugin available through Mendeley Desktop.

When finding articles online, add them to your reference library with:

• Install Mendeley Web Importer

Keep your references up to date across all devices by syncing through your Mendeley web account. Your web library mirrors the Mendeley Reference Manager desktop application and can also be used independently as a platform for reading, annotating, and taking notes.

Access our Research Guide completely on APA Style!