Foundations of Education
Overview
• Library Website
• Collections in the Library
• Searching Techniques
• Searching for Articles
Library Homepage
http://www.swosu.edu/library/
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When you have questions,
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or in person.
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will get it from another library for you
(ILL) or if you live too far from
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Librarian chosen
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convenience.
Off-campus access
If you have problems logging in, please contact us.
http://www.swosu.edu/library/infoservices/remoteaccess.asp
If you are off-campus and trying to access a restricted section of the library’s resources, you will
be prompted for your username and password. Students enter your webmail username and
password and you should be able to proceed with no problems. Students experiencing
problems should contact the library’s Reference Desk [(580) 774-7082 ] for assistance.
Education Collections in
the Library
Collections in the library specific to
Education
• Curriculum Collection
– Textbooks and curriculum materials “up for” or have been
adopted for use in the state of Oklahoma.
– Adopted textbooks circulate. (you can check them out)
• Reavis Collection
– Special materials written on education topics for a professional
audience.
• ENC Collection
– Specialized curriculum materials for the fields of Math and
Science.
• Juvenile Collection
– Non-fiction and fiction books for children and young adults.
Searching Techniques
Keyword vs. Subject
• Natural language
• Flexible terminology
• Less accurate
• Use with Boolean
Operators (AND,
OR, NOT)
• Predetermined
terminology
• Thesaurus
• More precise
More about Keyword Searching
• Use phrasing for single
concept, multiple words
• Truncation
– * or ?
– (educational system)
– “Early childhood education”
• Most common use of “ ” & ( ):
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Basic phrase
Proper names
Slogans, advertisements
Famous quotes
Movie titles, song titles, etc.
Hyphenated words
• How to use:
– Roots
• Teach*
– Vowels
• Wom*n
Operators
• AND = Narrow
• OR = Expand
(Used with synonyms)
• NOT = Exclude
Combining Operators
• Order Matters!
– children AND (violence OR bullying) NOT television
• looks up articles about bullying or violence pertaining to children, excluding any
occurrences with television
– children AND television NOT (violence OR bullying)
• looks up articles about children and television excluding anything having to do with
violence or bullying
• Phrasing Matters
– (elementary school children) AND bullying
• looks up articles about bullying in elementary school children
– elementary AND school AND children AND bullying
• looks up articles about bullying with the words elementary, school and children, not
necessarily focusing on elementary school children.
– (elementary school) AND children AND bullying
• looks up articles about children in an elementary school that deal with bullying.
Searching for Articles
What Are Differences
between Popular and
Scholarly Publications?
Magazines vs. Scholarly Journals
Popular vs. Scholarly
Publications
Popular Magazines
Scholarly Journals
Overall appearance
Glossy paper, advertisements, heavily
illustrated, attractive in appearance
Sober and serious, may contain graphs or
charts, will not find glossy pages or
photographs
Audience
General Public
Scholars and students
Authors
Reporters
Scholars in the field
Documentation
Sources sometimes cited for news
articles, but rarely
Cite sources in footnotes, endnotes,
parenthetical notes or bibliography
Purpose
Provide general information
Report on original research or
experimentation
Article Acceptance
Procedure
Articles written by hired reporters, edited
by magazine editors, and published
Often undergo a "peer-reviewed" process -reviewed by other scholars in the field
before being published. Sometimes these
journals are called "refereed journals."
How do I discover whether the library
owns a periodical I want to use?
• Check the Periodicals List
• Do we own High School Journal?
Education Journals
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Catalyst for Change
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National School Development Council (available through Education
Research Complete)
Mathematics Teaching in the Middle School
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National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (microfiche)
News Bulletin
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National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (paper)
English Journal
Research in the Teaching of English
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National Council of Teachers of English (microfilm, databases, paper)
Journal of Social Work Education
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Council on Social Work Education (databases)
Social Education
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National Council for the Social Studies (microfilm, databases, paper)
Music Educators Journal
Journal of Research in Music Education
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National Association for Music Education (databases, paper)
• Journal of Research in Childhood Education
– Association for Childhood Education International (paper)
• Journal of Research in Teaching Science
– National Association for Research in Science Teaching (microfilm,
databases, paper)
• Journal of the American Association for Health, Physical Education,
and Recreation
• Research Quarterly of the American Association for Health and
Physical Education
• Research Quarterly of the American Association for Health, Physical
Education, and Recreation
– American Association for Health, Physical Education, and Recreation
(databases, paper)
Databases available for
Education Majors
General Articles
Specialized
• ERIC
• Education Research
Complete
• Academic Search
Complete
• JSTOR Journal Archive
• Project Muse Journal
Archive
• Mental Measurements
Yearbook
• KCDL: Kraus Curriculum
Development Library
• SPORTDiscus
• Certification Exams for
Oklahoma Educators
(CEOE)
The Articles section is where journal information is
located. You can look up articles by subject, find them
in alphabetical order or use the Periodicals List to see if
we own a particular journal either online or in the library.
For education related
searches, Click the
“Education” option.
For general education articles you will want to search either ERIC or Education Research
Complete. Remember that ERC contains articles only, and ERIC is a depository of various types
of information about education. ERIC comes to us from the U.S. Department of Education.
Setting Up Your EBSCO Folder
Creating a folder allows you to set up your own personal
workspace inside the article database. You will be able to save
any articles from any EBSCO database in this workspace.
Searching for Peer-Reviewed
Journal Articles
Keywords = education and law
EBSCOHost Search Screen:
Enter your keyword(s) and operators in
the Search box
Check the Scholarly (Peer Reviewed)
Journals box if you want material that
is research based.
Check the Full Text box if you want
material that is available online.
Scholarly sources are concerned with academic study, especially research for individuals such as, students,
teachers, professors, or any other professional who need current information to stay informed of changes to their
profession or area of expertise. Many scholarly journals are peer reviewed or refereed; that is, these articles have
been subjected to a rigorous approval and editing process by other scholars in that discipline. This process doesn’t
apply to popular magazines.
Identifying Search Results & Full-Text Articles:
This is the total number of
results found.
An article online in HTML format. This is just the
text with no page numbers, page breaks and
generally no graphics.
An article online in PDF format. This will look
exactly that same as the original article or a
photocopy of it, with pictures and page
numbers.
PDFs are larger file sizes than HTML versions.
Keep this in mind when emailing articles to
yourself.
Printing PDF Articles:
It’s important to remember when you are in a PDF document to use the print
icon that is in Adobe, not on the browser. The document won’t print if you
choose the print option from your Internet browser window.
If you need to print the citation information also, use the link positioned above
the Adobe toolbar to obtain this information.
Printing HTML Articles:
It’s important to remember when you are in a HTML document to use the print icon that is in EBSCOHost,
not on the browser. By using this print icon, EBSCOHost will remove all frames around the article
leaving the text to be printed. If you are familiar with the term,
EBSCOHost makes the article “printer-friendly.”
Citation Information:
Title of the Article
Author(s)
Journal title
Total number of pages
Month/Year
Volume/issue
There are two ways to add keywords to your search from
this screen.
You can add AND, OR, NOT terms into the search
box and press Search to retrieve a new results list.
Or… you can AND a subject area by clicking on
these identified terms. This will automatically add
the clicked term to the search box and a new search
results list will be retrieved.
Notice we have narrowed the results from 231 to 124 by adding keywords
and operators to the Search box and limiting the results to Full Text.
In this search, we don’t see the articles that the library has in the building
because we limited to only those online. To update these limits, use the options
located to the right of the search results.
This note indicates material that the
library owns.
You can limit the date range of the articles by
moving this slider or inputting the actual dates.
Exercise
• Finding Journal Articles Worksheet
Questions??
• Please ask me—
Jane Long
580-774-3030
jane.long@swosu.edu