Adolescent Development
Spring 2006
Professor Claudine Prairie

Instruction Librarian: Kristen Hindes
Office: Library 205
Phone: x2590
email: khindes@smcvt.edu
Appointments: Contact me via phone or email.
At the Reference Desk on Tuesdays from 9-11am.

General Reference Hours:
Monday - Thursday 9-5, 6-10
Friday 9-5
Saturday 12-4
Sunday 2-8
Reference Desk Phone: x2405

ERIC

ERIC is the Educational Resources Information Center--a federally funded, nationwide information network designed to provide you with ready access to education literature. Coverage is from 1966 to the present.
 
What can you get from ERIC?
ERIC has more than a million abstracts including:
-Journal articles-(EJ)
More than 600,000 abstracts of articles from more than 900 journals.
-ERIC Documents-(ED)
More than 400,000 abstracts of research papers, books, conference presentations, curriculum guides, and more.
 
ProQuest Education Journals
 
Contains more than 550 titles on education--including primary, secondary, and university-level topics--with nearly 300 in full text. Includes the indexing and abstracts from H.W. Wilson's highly regarded Education Abstracts, plus many additional titles.

 

Going beyond keyword searching--Using the Thesaurus
Find and use ERIC descriptors

Every abstract in ERIC is indexed with subject terms called descriptors. ERIC descriptors are listed in The Thesaurus of ERIC Descriptors. The library has copies of the thesaurus in the reference section. (call number REF Z695.1.E3 T49) Example 1)social skills  2)ungraded classes
Another way to find descriptors is to use the descriptors from the most relevant abstracts. So instead of looking up the correct term(s) first, let your search do the work for you. Example: retention of students (repeat a grade)
  • Controlled vocabulary that helps you find the descriptors (subject headings) for your search terms
  • Hierarchy that permits searching various levels--broader, narrower, and related, for example:
Adolescents
  Scope Note Approximately 13-17 years of age
  Broader Terms Age Groups
  Related Terms Adolescent Attitudes
    Adolescent Behavior
    Adolescent Development
    Adolescent Literature
    Children+
    Early Adolescents
    Early Parenthood
    High School Students+
    Late Adolescents
    Parent Child Relationship+
    Preadolescents
    Secondary School Students+
    Youth+
  Used For Adolescence (1966-1980)
    Teenagers (1966-1980)

 

 

 

Limiting your search (Refine search)

  • Year
  • Population
  • Age group
  • Language

Database Access

  • SMC page
  • Library
  • Find articles and databases
  • Alphabetical listing--ERIC/ProQuest Education Journals/PsycINFO

Getting to the article

  1. Linked Full Text

  2. Check EJournals A-to-Z (check date range)

  3. Check Library Catalog (Library Has? Location=Current, Bound, Microfilm)

  4. Request Interlibrary Loan

Dissertations

Combining Search Terms		    

http://www.acsu.buffalo.edu/%7Ebialas/EAS305/eas305_Venn.htm
AND

http://www.acsu.buffalo.edu/%7Ebialas/EAS305/eas305_Venn.htm
OR

http://www.acsu.buffalo.edu/%7Ebialas/EAS305/eas305_Venn.htm
NOT

Citing Sources with Citation Machine
http://citationmachine.net/
Citation Machine is an interactive Web tool designed to assist teachers and students in producing reference citations for crediting information from other people.