Library
Electronic Research: CSUN’s Oviatt Library Online
1: Save this document to the Library folder you created on your desktop
2: Keep this document open in one window.
3: Open the Oviatt Library Home page in your browser following one of the steps below.
A: Use your browser to
go to the CSUN home
page, www.csun.edu,
then click on the library
link…or…
Notes: you may type e-notes here
Notes: e-notes
B: Enter the library’s
URL directly into your
browser.
http://library.csun.edu/
4: From the Library Home Page, go through the following steps.
Click on
Databases A-Z
Your next screen
should look like
this.
Notes:
Click the letter E, or…
…scroll down until you come to
Education Resources Information
Center. Two of the databases you
should become familiar with are
EBSCOHost and ERIC. For this
activity we will use ERIC from CSA.
Click on this link to continue.
Notes:
At this point, you must sign in to the
library with your CSUN ID code
(xxx12345) and your password.
Click submit after you type in your
access code.
Help your neighbor
Notes:
A: Enter differentiated instruction
into the first box.
B: Note that you are still searching in
the ERIC database.
C: Before you click search, narrow
your results to those articles that are
available online.
D: When you have set
these parameters,
then click search.
Notes:
Look at the tabs for the results from your search. Fill out the table below for the number of hits that
“differentiated instruction” earned in each category.
Published
Works
All Publication
Types
Scholars
Journals
Web Sites
Peer-Reviewed
Journals
Enter the title of the first article here.
Conferences
Books
Use the browsers back arrow to return to the advanced search page, or scroll down to find the same
information.
This time, you will create a Boolean Search, with three (and) criteria.
A: Enter differentiated instruction
into the first box, taxonomy into the
second and intelligences into the third.
B: Note that you are still searching in
the ERIC database.
D: When you
have reset these
parameters,
then click
search again.
C: Be sure you are still restricted to
articles that are available online.
Notes:
Your results should be
similar to this screenshot.
Click on the title or
View Record to get the
full abstract.
Highlight and
copy the text of
the article’s
abstract.
Paste the text of the article’s abstract here.
Paste text of abstract here
Click on
Full-Text to
retrieve article.
notes:
Take a screen shot of the top of page 2 from the PDF, Table of Contents and
insert it here.
notes:
If you would like
to save a copy of
this article in your
Library Folder,
click on the PDF
save icon, not the
browser save
menu.
Other Resources
Courtesy of Dr. Herr
Cal State University Northridge
Newspapers and News Magazines online.
http://www.csun.edu/science/ref/news/general_news.html
Encyclopedias
http://www.csun.edu/science/ref/reference/encylclopedias.html
Links to Specialized Resources
http://www.csun.edu/science/courses/514/assignments/ref.html#Categories