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 York holdings

Search

 Finding Keywords: significant and important terms that reflect your research topic.

 Boolean Logic OperatorsAND  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+12=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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