EDUCATION

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FIND AN ARTICLE: SEARCH THE LIBRARY’S DATABASES

These databases are either tailored to your subject or they provide coverage over a wide range of interdisciplinary topics. Before you start, you might take a look at some tips on searching databases.

• ERIC: More than 2,200 digests from over 1,000 educational and education-related journals

• Academic Search Premier: An interdisciplinary database that provides full text for nearly 4,500 journals, including more than 3,600 peer-reviewed titles

• Professional Development Collection: Full text articles from 520 authoritative education journals, including nearly 350 peer-reviewed titles

• Issues and Controversies: Covers current social topics that inspire debate and controversy and offers information on both sides of the argument

• Points of View: Offers overviews on a variety of current events and sets of opposing viewpoints on controversial subjects

• Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection: Nearly 575 full text publications, including 550 peer-reviewed journals that contain information about psychology and human development

• PsycArticles: Provides access to more than 100,000 articles from 59 journals--48 published by the American Psychological Association (APA) and 11 from allied organizations--that were published from 1894 to the present

FIND A BOOK: GO STRAIGHT TO THE STACKS

If you can't go the library's stacks, check out our collection of online reference books:

• Credo Reference Online: Access to more than 300 reference books, including general and specialized encyclopedias and dictionaries for overviews on topics

• Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia: Online access to a general encyclopedia covering a wide range of topics

• World Atlas: Provides maps, images, and the ability to compare demographic information from different countries

If you can visit the library, it's easy to browse our collection because we organize books by their subject:

You also might try these reference books:

• Encyclopedia of Education: an eight-volume set that includes more than 800 articles on education and offers appendices and an index Ref LB 15 .E47 2003

• The College Blue Book: a five-volume set that provides descriptions and data of colleges that grant degrees, offer occupational education, and/or include distance learning programs Ref LA 201 .E38 2001

• Guide to Distance Learning: Contains information on more than 4800 distance learning programs, addressing accreditation and financial aid options Ref LC 5805 .P48 2005

• 2006 Higher Education Directory: Provides the contact information of accredited, postsecondary, degree-offering institutions Ref L 901 .H46 2006

• Dictionary of Multicultural Education: Explains and clarifies terms, phrases, and concepts used when discussing multicultural education Ref LC 1099 .D53 1997

• Encyclopedia of Learning Disabilities: Provides more than 600 articles on topics related to learning disabilities and development Ref LC 4704 .5 .T86 2001

FIND A WEBSITE: USE INTERNET RESOURCES WISELY

Although these websites are likely to be accurate, you should still evaluate information found on the Internet.

• Center for Public Education: Offers summaries of research and reports, articles on practices, news on education, and a glossary

• Education World: Provides information on lesson plans, administration, technology integration, and professional development along with articles on issues related to schools

• Multicultural Education Pavilion: Offers articles written by educators along with handouts, news, models, and activities related to multicultural education and social justice

• Digest of Educational Statistics: Contains governmental data on education and includes links to information on assessment, fast facts, tables, and data tools

• EdNews: Provides up-to-date news stories related to education, including commentaries, reports, and a resource list for further research

• Education Week: An online journal that publishes international and national news about education along with articles on topics in education

• National Institute for Literacy: Provides governmental information on literacy for children, adolescents, and adults, including links to statistics, program reviews, and discussion lists

• Learn NC: Offers articles, resources, lesson plans, and news and is maintained by the University of North Carolina’s School of Education

FIND A PRINT JOURNAL: READ THE LATEST ISSUES

The library subscribes to magazines and journals that are related to your field. Head to Tioga 3 and browse through some of these journals:

• Adult Education Quarterly
• The Chronicle of Higher Education
• Distance Education Report
• Childhood Education
• Education Digest
• Journal of Research in Early Childhood Education
• Sociology of Education
• Exceptional Children
• Journal of Learning Disabilities
• Educational Leadership
• Harvard Educational Review
• Community College Journal

CITATION GUIDES: CREATE A BIBLIOGRAPHY

Whether you use websites, electronic journals, reference books, or print resources, you will need a bibliography. Here’s some information on how to cite your sources:

• Avoid inadvertent plagiarism: It’s possible to copy from a source and not even know that you’ve done anything wrong.

• KnightCite: This great site formats the bibliographic entry for you, and you can select the appropriate style (MLA, APA, Chicago).

• Guide to the MLA style: The MLA-style is generally used for papers written in the humanities.

• Guide for the APA style: The APA-style is generally used for papers written in the social sciences, especially psychology.

FIND MORE HELP: USE COLLEGE RESOURCES

Don’t hesitate to talk to a librarian, a tutor, or your instructor when conducting research. Make the most of these resources!

• Library Hours
• Writing Center
• Tutoring Lab

Descriptions of databases are paraphrased or taken directly from Ebsco.

This page was created and is maintained by Smita Avasthi.