Cunningham Library - Australian Education Index (AEI)

About AEI

Find answers to current educational challenges

  • Identify Australian research and researchers
  • Keep up to date with new developments and trends in education

Subjects covered by AEI include

  • Curriculum
  • Educational policy, planning & administration
  • Special education
  • Adult and continuing education
  • Educational psychology
  • Higher education
  • Teaching and teacher education
  • Educational sociology
  • Educational systems, levels and institutions
  • Research and measurement techniques
  • Vocational education and training
  • Educational history
  • Indexing

Over 200 Australian journals comprehensively indexed and more than 500 Australian and international journals are scanned for relevant articles. View the list of core journals indexed. And view the list of core conferences indexed. Books, conference proceedings and papers, research and technical reports, theses and legislation are also indexed.

All entries are assigned subject headings from the Australian Thesaurus of Education Descriptors. The third edition (2003) in print is now available from ACER Press. A search version is now available from ACER Library web site.

Submitting documents for indexing

Items for indexing can be submitted to Cunningham Library, ACER at any time. The index aims to include all information published about Australian education. Submit a Document.

Document Delivery

Most items indexed (except for theses) for the AEI are held by Cunningham Library and are available for loan or photocopy through your library's interlibrary loans/document delivery service. Photocopies of articles can be obtained through Cunningham Library's Document Supply service.

International ERIC (Dialog OnDisc)

The International ERIC suite of databases is named after an informal group comprising representatives from ERIC, the Australian Education Index, the British Education Index and Micromedia, producer of the Canadian Education Index. From 1999 the CD contains the British Education Index back to 1976 and the Australian Education Index back to 1978. Additional resources on the product are the Bibliography of Education Theses in Australia, back files of the British Education Theses Index, and the thesauri of the respective databases. The database on International ERIC is updated quarterly. Enquiries about International ERIC should be directed to The Dialog Corporation.

Informit Online

The Australian Education Index and also A+ Education are available on the web via Informit Online. The databases are updated monthly. A+ Education is based on ACER's Australian Education Index (AEI). There are over 245 comprehensively or selectively indexed journals for which the full text articles are available. In total, there are links to over 28,000 full text documents such as reports, conference papers and journals from the database. For subscription information see the Informit website.

Transmission Books (Taiwan)

The Australian Education Index is available online with a Chinese language interface from Transmission Books in Taiwan. This database is updated quarterly. For Information see the Transmission books website and its AEI page at http://www.tbmc.com.tw/tbmc2/cdb/intro/Edu-aei.htm.