AHE 599: Information Technology

• Name: Kathy Chatfield
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Finding Books:

OSU Libraries Catalog provides information about items owned by the main libraries and our two branch libraries in Bend and Newport, including books, government documents, visual materials and the titles of journals we subscribe to.

Summit Catalog (Collective catalog for 30+ libraries in Oregon and Washington) lets you access even more materials through a cooperative borrowing arrangement.

 

Finding Articles:

Professional Development Collection provides access to articles in over 300 peer reviewed education journals.

ERIC  (Education Resources Information Center) is the single largest education database, covering journals, issue digests, conference proceedings, classroom guides, etc. Many records are linked to full-text.

Education Research Complete also provides access to an extensive collection of journal material, conference papers and books. 

More Help: 

The Education Research Guide provides a more comprehensive view of using the OSU Libraries resources for education related information seeking.

Tips for finding tests and measures or information about them is in this research guide. 

Research Tutorial is a self-paced review of the research process. 

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

Many tools are available for helping you keep track of developments in your field of interest. You can create "alerts" which will update you when a new issue of a journal comes out by sending the table of contents to an e-mail account or RSS feed. You can create similar alerts for searches in many of our databases. Mini-tutorials on these and other topics are available at the Keeping Current with Research page.