Q. What journals do you have that relate to educational finance?

Education finance is somewhat of a hybrid. It crosses both education and business subject domains. We do not have a specific journal of education finance in our collection but we can suggest alternative searching to find what you need. You can approach this subject from several different angles. These are not in any order of significance but I would be tempted to start with #3 first actually.

1. Since this crosses into the business domain, you can use the Business Source Complete database (see the link below) to search [education AND finance AND management] -- brackets are not needed. This yields a result set of 15,000+. Since this is a business database, you could click the dropdown option and limit education to the title field while leaving the other two fields open-ended (a.k.a. global keyword). This slight variation yields a result set of about 1800 which is more managable. You can use the additional limiting options or additional terms of importance (related to your need) to further reduce the number.
   
   You can do the same search on the ScienceDirect database. I know it sounds weird but this database includes both hard and soft science. Education is a subset of sociology and is inlcuded. Things work slightly different here. From the ScienceDirect home page, click the Search link in the green bar. Do the same search for [education AND finance AND management] but scroll down the subject discipline list and click Social Sciences. Also, you need to click the "Subscribed Publications" to limit results to those areas to whihc HCU has access. This also yields about 14,000+ articles. Also, by editing the search as we did above and limiting education to the Title field, this reduces the result set down to about 700 articles. You won't have as many options to limit in this database except by year (defaults to 2003 and forward). 
2. If you already have some citations, you can do a keyword title search for all publications to which we have access. Click the AtoZ E-Journal Title Locator link below. Your search will be a global keyword. We don't have anything [education AND finance] or [education AND managment]. You can just type education and see all the journals we have that contain the word "education" in the title and select whatever journal you want.
3. The Education LibGuide contains a listing of well-respected education journals. You can click on any of them under the "Finding Journals" tab. You should able to search for your terms under each specific journal. You can also use the power of HCU OneSearcch (see link below) which search all of our databases simultaneously. OneSearch searches all of the journals to which we have access (full text or abstract) as well as items in the library catalog that may be relevant. Just doing the [education AND finance AND management] search, you will find a ridculous 51,000+ items in your result set. You will most definitely need to use the many limiting options available (left side of the page) to get the number down. I was surprised that if you did an advanced search with education (and click the Title option on the dropdown list) AND finance AND management, the results  drop off drastically to about 50. They may or may not be relevant and you can sort the list by date instead of relevance.

Keep one thing in mind. The databases are not 100% full text. You may sometimes see abstracts only in your results. If you do not see a full text option, it is because the publisher has not given that database the right to display the fulltext. If you read an abstract and the article looks interesting, please click the Interlibrary Loan (ILL) Services link below and click the journal or book request tab. Officially, I have to say that we can get items within 7-10 business days; however, we do have a courier service. Our ILL librarian usually looks for the nearest location to request your source. If it nearby, we can usually get things much quickier. The contact number and email are on that page. Another service that may be of use to you is the TexShare program. Be sure to read that paragraph on the ILL page.

Feel free to experiment with different terms. I highly recommend that you pay attention to the Subject Heading fields (if available) and the terms used in the title for suggestions of other terms that you can use in your search. I encourage you to think of other synonyms for each term as well and try those. The problem is the English language is so complex that a really good author might use a different term than what you are searching for.

In most cases, if we do not have access to full-text, you should see an option for LinkSource. It is a service that tries to cross-connect all of our databases. It looks through the inventory to see if we might have access to that journal from another vendor. Linksoruce may or may not find one. Sometimes it may lead you to another abstract database but it is still worth exploring.

Oh, one more thing. The ERIC database (under the Education Databases link below) was hit with a privacy issue. Many of their articles contained proivate information and they are working through the database to erradicate personal information. I do not know their progress so some articles may not be available but it would still be worthwhile.

All of these search suggestions mentioned above will work with any database for any subject.

This ought to be enough to jumpstart your search. I hope this is helpful. Please let us know if we can assist you further! Good luck!