Human Services Library Portal: Students

Your EHD librarian is Ashley Hosbach-Wallman. You can schedule 1-1 appointments with Ashley online.

Sign up for Library orientations, workshops, and events with our online calendar. UVA Library programming is offered in-person and online.

Academic databases contain peer-reviewed articles, scientific papers, reports, and more. These are the most used databases for Education research.

PsycINFO , from the American Psychological Association, contains over 3 million citations and summaries of scholarly journal articles, book chapters, books, and dissertations.

Web of Science is an interdisciplinary database that covers articles across the social sciences, sciences, and humanities. WOS also tracks citations and scholar metrics.

Google Scholar is a free academic search engine that can be thought of as the academic version of Google. It searches repositories of publishers, universities or scholarly websites. Sync with UVA Library to access the PDFs.

ERIC is an online library of education research and information, sponsored by the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) of the U.S. Department of Education. ERIC is built by educators for educators.

For most courses in EHD our preferred citation style is American Psychological Association (APA): 7th Edition. APA Style is used by writers in many disciplines around the world for concise, powerful, and persuasive scholarly communication.

EHD's 2025-2026 Common Read is After The Last Border: Two Families and the Story of Refuge in America. 

The welcoming and acceptance of immigrants and refugees have been central to America's identity for centuries--yet America has periodically turned its back in times of the greatest humanitarian need. After The Last Border is an intimate look at the lives of two women as they struggle for the twenty-first century American dream, having won the "golden ticket" to settle as refugees in Austin, Texas.

Content warning: This book contains descriptions of political violence, allusions to child sexual abuse, sexual violence, racism, and war-related traumas.

AI tools can be great resources to support your work. However, they need to be used appropriately. ChatGPT should never be used for article searching as it generates fake results.