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CERUK |
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www.ceruk.ac.uk/ceruk/ |
| CERUK (Current Educational Research in the UK) is a database, sponsored by NFER, DCFS and the EPPI Centre (The Evidence for Policy and Practice Information and Co-ordinating Centre), that seeks to include all recently completed and ongoing research into education in the United Kingdom, from large sponsored programmes to individual projects. It gathers information from all institutions where educational research is undertaken. |
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Cochrane Collaboration |
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www.nelh.nhs.uk/cochrane.asp |
| This site provides systematic overviews of the effects of health and social care from a range of international collaborating centres. You can get free access to the Review Abstracts and the site links to the websites of other Cochrane Centres and Groups. Though the focus is largely on clinical effectiveness there are some reviews and resources, which are particularly relevant to child welfare |
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ERIC |
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www.eric.ed.gov/ |
| Educational Resources Information Centre (ERIC) is a national information system funded by the U.S. Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences to provide access to education literature and resources. It does however contain some useful information on a range of educational research matters that are relevant to the UK context. |
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Medline PubMed (health) |
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www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi |
| PubMed is a major gateway and a service of the National Library of Medicine. It includes over 14 million citations for biomedical articles back to the 1950's. These citations are from MEDLINE and additional life science journals. PubMed includes links to many sites providing full text articles and other related resources. |
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NCJRS (criminal justice) |
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www.ncjrs.org/ |
| The National Criminal Justice Reference Service (NCJRS) is a federally funded research resource from the United States offering justice and substance abuse information to support research, policy, and program development worldwide. It offers information on crime and justice-related research, policy and practice and also includes statistical information. Although much of the information related to the United States it does include research from the UK |
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Social Care Online |
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www.scie-socialcareonline.org.uk/ |
| A freely available searchable database Social Care online is available through the Social Care Institute for Excellence site and includes articles, research reports, monographs and official publications across the whole of social care, organised by topic, including the full text of many documents. The database searches the 'live' database, which means that, as new records are added each weekday, they become automatically accessible to you. |
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National Foundation for Educational Research (NFER |
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www.nfer.ac.uk/index.cfm |
| NfER is the UK's leading independent educational research organisation and seeks to improve education and training nationally and internationally by providing high quality, evidence based information for policy makers, managers and practitioners. NFER also undertakes development and dissemination activities and provides a range of information services. Target audience includes teachers, policy makers, education managers, local authority staff and officers, elected councillors, governors, parents and a broad range of professionals within the public and voluntary services. The website provides a gateway to gateway to current research projects, research summaries, new publications and a comprehensive, constantly undated source of information about all aspects of education and research. |
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Children’s Services Network |
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www.csn.info |
| The Children's Services Network (CSN) was launched in 2006 and developed from The Education Network (TEN), originally launched by the LGIU in 1997, to help develop, promote and disseminate the role and good practice of local authorities in the delivery of education. The site contains helpful set of regularly updated policy and research briefings and other publications. |
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EPPI-CENTRE |
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eppi.ioe.ac.uk/cms/ |
| The Evidence for Policy and Practice Information and Co-ordinating (EPPI) Centre is based in the Social Science Research Unit in the Institute of Education. Its main aim is to collate the results of public policy research in a format that policy-makers, practitioners, academics and other research-users can use to make sensible decisions based on sound evidence. The website contains these reviews plus a range of other materials related to research. |
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