Education and Economic and Business Education

Databases help you to research literature, press releases and factual information.

The database information system (DBIS) provides an overview on all databases available for Education. Please note that some databases are only available within the network of the University of Mannheim or via VPN, if you are not on campus.

In the OECD iLibrary, you will find publications on the current PISA results.

In the Electronic Journals Library (EZB) and the Primo catalog, you will find e-journals on Education/Economic and Business Education.

All e-books available at the University Library in Mannheim can be found in the Primo catalog.

The publisher Springer offers an extensive selection of e-books for Education.

Publishing research data makes research transparent and reproducible. Universities, publishers and research funding organizations increasingly expect researchers to publish their research data.

The website forschungsdaten.info and the publication “Auffinden – Zitieren – Dokumentieren” offer introductory information.

If you are looking for repositories for research data, the re3data service might help. The DataCite service might be helpful for researching individual data sets internationally. 

At the University of Mannheim, you can use MADATA to publish research data. The forschungsdaten bildung service, provided by DIPF, is a special offer for Education studies. 

The following websites are a selection of relevant Internet resources for Education:

• Leibniz Institute for Research and Information in Education (DIPF)
• Max Planck Institute for Human Development 
• Fachportal Pädagogik – Education Research Portal
• Deutscher Bildungsserver – German education server
• German Educational Research Association (GERA)
• Landesbildungsserver Baden-Württemberg, the education server of the Land of Baden-Württemberg

In the A3 Library, you will find literature on Education which you can use on site. The items are freely accessible and organized according to subject area. Borrowing from this collection is only possible for academic staff of the University of Mannheim.

The Central Lending Library Schloss Westflügel hosts more literature on Education which you can borrow with your ecUM or your library card.

The textbook collection in the Central Lending Library Schloss Westflügel hosts multiple copies of the most important textbooks. Students of the University of Mannheim and cooperating institutions are eligible to borrow from the textbook collection.

In the Primo catalog, you can search for the literature available at the University Library.

Education in Mannheim:

• Center for Teacher Education (in German)
• Information on teacher education at the University of Mannheim
• Chair of Educational Psychology
• Chair of Psychology of Education
• Assistant Professorship of Quality of Instruction in Heterogeneous Contexts
• Assistant Professorship in Sociology of Education and Family
• Chair of Economic and Business Education – Instructional Systems Design and Evaluation
• Chair of Economic and Business Education – Learning, Design and Technology
• Chair of Economic and Business Education – Workplace Learning
• Chair of Economic and Business Education – Professional Teaching and Learning
• Chair of Economic and Business Education – Competency Development and Training Quality

In the Journal Citation Reports, you will find current information on the “impact factors” of international journals. Just open them in the “Web of Science” and select the “Education” categories.