The following databases will help you find empirical research on education topics:
Professional associations and research centers are good sites to find research-based information outside of the typical publication stream. Look to these organizations for conference proceedings, white papers, news from the field and scholars to know.
As you embark on your research career, you will need to find an efficient way to manage the library of readings you are building. The Vanderbilt Libraries provides workshops on the EndNote software package. The guide listed below will provide more information.
Wikipedia has a comparison of bibliographic management software packages.