GED 558 - Introduction to Educational Research

Spring 2006

Instructor: Anne Judson

bulletGuest Speaker:
 Steve Burks
Office: Library 210
Phone: 654-2354
sburks@smcvt.edu
bullet Library Hours
bullet Reference Hours
bulletALSO, by Appointment:


If you get lost... go to the St. Michael's Library homepage 

Contents

bulletReference Section - Encyclopedias, Dictionaries,  Browse in the Library of Congress LB - LC section
 
bulletLibrary Catalog: SMC books, videos, maps, journal holdings, and more
 - Education Theses in the LB7.S3 section of the stacks (3rd floor)
 - Subject searching - Bilingual Education    //   Search strategies in databases
 - Keyword searching - Education Bilingual    //  "database searching"

bulletOther Library Catalogs: UVM, Library of Congress, WorldCat

bullet Indexes and Full Text Databases - Alpha List: Academic Search Premiere,  ERIC, ProQuest Education Journals, PsycInfo and other databases.

 Indexes by Subject -

bulletIntroduction to ERIC  - ED & EJ

bullet ERIC Database* - Basic Searching // Advanced Searching & Limit Results

--  ERIC Thesaurus:  Controlled Vocabulary
 
bulletSigning into MyEbscohost
 
bullet ProQuest Education Journals   About...
 
bullet Signing up for ProQuest Alerts
 
bullet Ejournals A-to-Z  - finding electronic access to journal holding
example searches -  "Reading Teacher"  ,  New York Times 2001
bulletOff Campus Access to LIS Databases

bulletSubject Guide to Networked Resources--Education

bulletInterlibrary Loan

bulletCitation Searching
- Google Scholar
bulletEMAIL - http://smcmail.smcvt.edu/exchange/logon.asp  (login as Mikenet/username, password

SEARCH STATEMENT

Write Out Your Search Statement and Circle the main topics.  Then break the topics into synonymous, broader, and narrower terms

Example Search Statement:

I'm researching the topic of the obstacles to information gathering amongst college freshman.
 - highlight the main search terms in your search statement

 
Break down statement terms into broader, narrower and synonymous terms
- use terms found in journal citations and ERIC Thesaurus
 
obstacles information gathering college freshman
difficulties
problems		 research
research methods
library skills
users (information)
information literacy
information retrieval
database searching		 underclassmen
freshman
first year student
 

Example Database Search - 

ERIC
("Information retrieval" OR "library skills") AND ("college freshman" OR "first year student")  
- 11 hits in ERIC - how do I broaden my search?

ProQuest Education
("Information retrieval" OR "library skills") AND ("college freshman" OR "first year student")
- 2 hits - how do I broaden my search?


 

Search Statement:

 

 
Term: Term: Term:
 

 

 

    

Use OR to search Synonymous Terms 
Use AND to search and narrow