Course Instructor

• Name: Joanna Means
• Email: Click to reveal this email
• Office Location: 420 Education Hall

Education Librarian

• Librarian: Paula McMillen, PhD
• 
• Office Location: 4th Floor, Valley Library
• Office Hours: by appointment: phone 541.737.7272
• Chat: VLibPaula
• Email: Click to reveal email

Web Site Recommendations

General 

OSU Libraries home page

Services for Graduate Students

Navigating the Library  

For Education

Education Research Guide

ERIC database

Professional Development Collection

Education Research Complete  

General Search Tips

Online Search Strategies

 

Narrow/ Focus Your Search	Broaden/ Expand Your Search
And or Not connector between concepts	"Or" connector between synonyms
Field Limiters, e.g., dates, type of document	Truncation or Wildcard (e.g., child*)
Use Thesaurus or controlled vocabulary (human assigned subject headings)	Free-text or keyword searching (computer mediated, no human intervention)
Phrase or proximity searching, e.g., student services  or first year n3 retention

 

Use the right search tools...

 
Use online catalogs to find books or information about journals (but not to search for information in them)

Use databases to search for journal articles. From our Databases link,  select the first letter from the alphabetic list if you already know the specific database you want to search, or change the drop down menu to pick a subject area and get a list of recommendations

Off-campus access to databases:  "Computers connecting via private internet providers or from non-OSU sites will be prompted for a name and OSU ID before being forwarded to the selected resource."             

• Call Computer Consulting, 737-7434, during business hours if you have problems

Finding and Getting Materials

1         Books (including chapters in edited books).

• Always search the OSU catalog first.
• If no catalog record is found or if our copy of the book is checked out, search the Summit catalog. You can usually locate the item in the regional catalog by clicking on the "Repeat in Summit" button. Then click on the "Request" link to have it delivered here.
  
• If you still don't find a copy, search WorldCat. Once you find the record there, order using the InterLibrary Loan (ILL) request link. (Note: you need to complete an Interlibrary Loan profile at: https://access.library.oregonstate.edu/ before making any ILL requests so the library can contact you when materials arrive.)

 2        Articles:

• Do we subscribe to the journal in which the article was published? There may be a full-text link in the results list or a note telling you of the library's print subscription.
• If neither of these apply, click on the "Get this item" icon
• Then search the OSU Libraries catalog to see if we own it in print or provide electronic access. If there is a record(s), check the dates to see if our subscription covers the article's date of publication. If you don't find a record, double check the E-journals list just to be sure.
• If it's not available at OSU electronically or in print, click on the OSU ILL link under InterLibrary Loan--remember you must already have an ILL account set up.

LibraryFind Search for Education

**Search results open in a new window**

This searches ERIC and Academic Search Premier databases.

Keeping Current with the Research Check out these short tutorials on how to set up alerting services, establish RSS feeds and more.

Style & Citation Guides Several major style and citation guides are referenced here. Check the links under APA (American Psychological Association) as well as the APA link under "Citing WWW Sources"