AHE 599: Information Technology

Course Instructor

Searching Education Databases

Education Librarian

Finding Dissertations

Keeping Current with Research

Learn how to

AHE 599 Basics

AHE 599 Course Page
http://ica.library.oregonstate.edu/course-guide/691-AHE599

Don’t hesitate to ask for help!
Contact Maureen Kelly, maureen.kelly@osucascades.edu
541-322-3110 (in Bend, Oregon)
IM clibkelly
Feel free to make an appointment for a phone, Skype or Adobe Connect Meeting

Other Useful  OSU Libraries Contact Info
Circulation: (541) 737-2538, valley.circ@oregonstate.edu
Interlibrary Loan: (541) 737-4488, valley.ill@oregonstate.edu
Reference: (541) 737-7293,  webpage with help links: http://osulibrary.oregonstate.edu/reference/

Library Basics

 

NOTE:  An online Literature Review Workshop for grad students is usually offered during winter quarter.

Requesting Library Materials & Troubleshooting Problems

Librarian:  Maureen Kelly, Extended Campus Librarian

Email:
maureen.kelly@osucascades.edu

Phone: 541-322-3110 (Bend, OR)

Chat: Clibkelly via AIM, Yahoo, Meebo -- go to Ecampus page; hours vary

Ecampus Library page: Click on Ecampus in the gray strip below the green banner at top of page.  The OSU Extended Campus Librarian's chat is available from this page, as well as other useful links.

More Help: Valley Library Reference

How to Request Library Materials

Information on Receiving Materials

Check Your Library Records/Renew

Questions about OSU materials & Summit items, email valley.remote@oregonstate.edu

Interlibary Loan questions, email valley.ill@oregonstate.edu

 

 

 

Organizing Your Research

 

 A useful way to organize your research is to use citation software. 

Zotero is a free, open source tool that  works with many of OSU Libraries' databases and will manage the citations you find in them. One of our librarians has developed a handout that clearly illustrates how to use Zotero.  See it the Zotero handout.

 

Another popular citation software is Endnote.  This software is sold commercially, but you can an educational  discount while at OSU.  You can also try the web version for free while you're an OSU student because it is available through the Web of Science database. The library has instructions for using Endnote.   Remember that you will lose free access when you are no longer affiliated with OSU.

 

There are many other brands of citation software.  To  read more about your choices, see the Manage Citations page.

 

 

APA Style & Tutorial

If you are not using a citation manager to help you format your bibliographies and notes, you'll want to pay attention to how to follow APA Style for your citations and bibliography.  The newest edition of the APA is Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, Sixth Edition, 2009.  Purdue has a useful guide for writing and citing in APA style:

APA has a tutorial for the new edition: APA 6th Edition Tutorial

Consider using Zotero to capture and organize your citations.  It is free software that is downloadable as an extension to the Firefox browser and it also has a Microsoft Word plugin that you can use to generate bibliographies.