Course Number: Phil/Soc 202
Course Title: Major Ideas
& Issues in Education
Professor Tania Levey
Library Orientation:
Databases in Education
Presented by Professor Di Su
Monday, February 27, 2012,
2:00-3:00 P.M., CL204A
Research Assignment:
Search reference databases
Provide three peer-reviewed academic sources
Library Resources
York College Library’s Homepage
URL: http://www.york.cuny.edu/library
Articles (electronic)
Main page
URL: http://www.york.cuny.edu/library/reference-databases/full-text-databases
Recommended databases for this topic:
- Education Full Text (EBSCO/Wilson)
- Education Journals (ProQuest)
- Education Research Complete (EBSCO)
- ERIC (EBSCO)
To power your search
- EBSCO Multiple database: search through all EBSCO products
- EBSCO Integrated Search: search multiple databases including different vendors (non-EBSCO)
- Using “Find it” (SFX) to retrieve full-text articles from other databases
- Serials Solutions: find full-text e-Journals by title or subject. Search or
Browse: <http://dq9tx9bc6r.search.serialssolutions.com/>
- Google Scholar. Linked to
Search
Finding Keywords: significant and important terms that reflect your research topic.
Boolean Logic Operators – AND OR NOT. And: narrows a search, e.g. women and army. Or: increases the number of search results, e.g. women or female; army or Military; computer or pc; adolescence or teenage. Not: filters out terms that you do not want included in your search, e.g. computer not programming.
Truncation/wildcard. child* to retrieve “child”, “children”, “childhood”, and
“childish”; wom*n to retrieve “women” and “woman”
Nesting in keyword searching. Use (…) and (…) to group words by concept and to indicate the order of execution. Similar to math operation: 1+1×2=3 but (1+1)×2=4,
e.g. (women or female) and (army or military); children and violence and ((television or media) not cartoon*)
Sample search statement:
- ((school or college)
and dropout*) and poverty
- (computer or
internet) and advantage* not programming
Cite (APA Style)
Manuals and handbooks are on Library Reserve.
Online
samples: http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/07/
Use database’s built-in citing function (EBSCO, ProQuest)
RefWorks (bibliography tool)
URL: https://www.refworks.com/Refworks/login.asp?WNCLang=false
Group code (case sensitive): RWYorkC
Sample Topics
Class Size
Charter Schools
Data Analysis
Educational Vouchers
Role of Local School Boards
School-Business Relationships
School Dropouts
School Leadership
School Safety
School Uniforms and Dress Codes
Scientific Research
Standards and Accountability
Student Motivation
Whole-School Reform
(Or use ERIC Thesaurus to find a topic <http://www.eric.ed.gov/>)
Created: 2/23/2012 Updated: 2/24/2012
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