EDUCATION DATABASES – ERIC

PART 2

Let’s say you need only articles and they need to be research-based articles.

• Click on: Show more >>

• Select:

To get research articles, from the same screen, select:

• You also have options to limit by Intended Audience; Educational Level, etc.

• Then click on Search again.

It takes our number of 323 down to 71, but they are all articles from journals and additionally research reports or original research.

If you can view the abstracts, you get an even betterIdea of the relevancy of an article. Let’s see how…

Two ways to view abstracts:With your citations in view (if you are on the Search) scroll down. First method….

Or, method 2:

• Click on Preferences

• Bullet: Detailed• Click on: Save• You can view all abstracts for this

current session.

Now, you can read the abstracts!

• And, if you can use this article, just click on the PDF Full Text!

Note that #17 is available full text simply by taking the PDF Full Text link.

Gnadringer, C. M. (2008). Peer-mediated instruction: Assisted performance in the primary classroom. Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 14(2), 129-142. doi:10.1080/ 13540600801965945{APA Reference}

The DOI# (p. 198 of your blue APA manual) was found on the first page of the article. If there is a DOI#it will be somewhere on page one.

#45 says: This title is held locally. That meansthat it is not full text here, but we can find it….

Click on the link: Check Journal Title Search for availability. This takes you directly to the IWU Journal Search engine.

Note that it is full text (paper) in Marion (Jackson Library).

Request the needed article by going to the OCLS Submit Request form from the OCLS homepage.

Most of the ERIC documents (ED######) are available full text from within ERIC, but the linking looks a bit different than for full text articles.

The link for full text is situated in the middle of the citation instead of underneath it.

Take note of the total pages in an ERIC document assome can be book length!

Full text will not be available for all articles / ERIC documents…

• …but using the Journal Search engine as demonstrated here and in a previous PowerPoint, you can determine the availability.

• When not available at all, you can request interlibrary loan. (For this, allow 3 days – 10 days to accomplish.)

Once you become familiar with ERIC subject headings, you can bypass the thesaurus and use the dropdown options on the main search screen. Select the SU Descriptors (All), option. This is

preferable to a keyword search (searching everywhere).

Why use ERIC?• Because of its depth of coverage of

current and past writings in the discipline of education, it provides the best stop for in depth education research.

• Professional Development Collection & ProQuest Education Journals provide more full text options but not as many ways to search (variety of subject headings) and depth of coverage.

How to use ERIC?• Use the Thesaurus to identify the

best terminology for your topic.• Use Boolean searching to combine

different topics.• Use limiting to look at only articles

or research articles.• Use the A to Z journal search engine

to identify the full text that is available to you from IWU.