for teachers: academic research

for teachers:Academic Research

At theRegents Center

LibraryDatabase & Online

Search ProcessLissa Lord llord@ku.edu

Fall 2013

We need to know this:

(1) How to use databases to find articles

(2) How to request full text articles if we find only abstracts

(WebRetrieve)

(3) How to use Google Scholar from the list of library

databases

(4) How to find books using the online catalog and request

delivery to Edwards Campus

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Using databases to find articles

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http://www.lib.ku.edu

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Limiting search results:

Date

Only peer-reviewed journals

Suggested topics from the search results

Sort by relevancy or most recent first

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One super-good article

The one super good article has a Reference List at the end

Other articles have cited this same article which you might want to look at

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What if there is only an abstract of an article and no full text?

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If no article was found, you can always get full text.

Here is your article!

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Click here for the full text article.

Click here for articles in PubMed

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PubMed website = http://www.pubmed.gov

These articles are similar to the article we found in ERIC in the Journal of Learning Disabilities

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ERIC website

ERIC database

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www.eric.ed.gov

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Does the library have electronic journals? Yes.

KU Libraries Homepage http://www.lib.ku.edu

Select: E-journals (left hand column) Search by title of the journal or Search by subject

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This is the article, not the abstract, we saw on the website at www.eric.ed.gov

1.Found: e-Journals on the Libraries’ homepage2.Typed: the title Journal of Research in Reading3.Found: Date, vol., issue4.Found: the title of the article we were looking for5.Saved: the article to our computer6.Databases: give you more of what you’re looking for.

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Other KU Libraries’ Databases to Look Into:

OmniFile full text select Provides indexing, abstracting and full-text content to journal articles in a variety of disciplines.

PsycINFO Contains citations and summaries of journal articles, book chapters, books, and technical reports, as well as citations to dissertations, all in the field of psychology and psychological aspects of related disciplines.

Google scholar Google Scholar enables you to search specifically for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, patents, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from all broad areas of research.

Google Scholar

A good way to search scholarly articlesusing the Google search strategy

Note: search Google Scholar from the Libraries list of databasesWhy? KU Libraries have partnered with Google to connect your search results with the Libraries databases.

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Select G for Google Scholar

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I want this book!

Finding Books

Library Catalog

Deliver to Edwards Campus

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http://www.lib.ku.edu

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Getting the book from

the Lawrence campus to

the Edwards Campus

just for you!

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What happens next?

The book will most likely be at the Edwards Campus Library the next day and you will receive an email telling you it is here.

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It’s the LawYou might like to know. . .

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State and Federal: Statutes and Regulations

Kansas Statutes: http://www.kslegislature.org/li/b2011_12/statute/ Kansas Administrative Regulations: http://www.kssos.org/pubs/pubs_kar.aspx

Missouri Revised Statutes: http://www.moga.mo.gov/statutes/statutes.htm Missouri Code of State Regulations: http://www.sos.mo.gov/adrules/csr/csr.asp

United States Code: http://uscode.house.gov/ Code of Federal Regulations: http://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text

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The Blog:The Blog:Dissertation Dissertation ResearchResearch

http://dissertationresearch.blogspot.com

Find articles through the libraries Databases

Find books through the Catalog

Find research news through the Blog

Questions?Ask the Librarian

Lissa Lordllord@ku.edu

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