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A Research Primer for

Graduate Students Regents Center Library The University of Kansas Fall 2014 Edwards Campus

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Library Home Page http://www.lib.ku.edu

Where’s the stuff

Articles

e-Journals

Newspapers

Books

e-Books

http://www.lib.ku.edu

Research by Subject & Course Guides

The Research Guides are a good place

to begin your database research by the

subject of your interest. Let’s take a look at Education:

Notice the tabs to choose from: Get Started, Articles and Databases, Books, Web Resources, Tests, Statistics, Evaluating and Citing

Clicking “Peer reviewed” limits a search to only scholarly articles.

Setting date limitation is a good way to

limit the number of results.

Notice the highlighted words are keywords from our search.

Find full-text

What if no full text of an article is found?

Request a copy

If you are a First time user of WebRetrieve, you need to fill out this short form (KU ID and last name) to register in the library system so that you can get the books and articles you request.

This is my info

If it’s your 1st time this is your info

Article Request data is automatically put

in by the request form.

What happens next?

The library will first check KU’s journal collection (print and electronic). If the article cannot be found then the library requests the article from other academic libraries. When KU receives the article it will be in PDF format and you will be sent an email with a link to the article you requested.

How long will that take?

Usually, about 2-3 days.

Searching another database: ERIC

Provides indexing and abstracts to the education literature. ERIC consists of two files: Resources in Education, covering the document literature, and Current Index to Journals in Education, covering the published journal literature. Many of the documents, identified by the ED number, are available full text.

We’re back to the Education Resources

guide to take a look at

another database. Let’s

try ERIC, an old standby

for educators.

* Allows for any number of letters at the end of a word—this broadens the search and usually gets more hits then spelling the entire word.

Cited in 15 different articles. Nice selection of articles and dissertations and notice they are more recent then the original article we found.

These are the references the author used in writing the paper. Notice most have links into articles, cited by, and references.

Find one good article and you will have a collaboration of authors, observations, research and results.

Databases for Dissertations

Most of the databases have dissertations included in the collections they manage. Here are 2 specific databases that cover only dissertations and theses: 1. Dissertations & Theses @ University of Kansas Contains citations and abstracts of dissertations and theses submitted by the University of Kansas and published in UMI's Dissertations Abstracts database, and full text of KU dissertations published after 1996 and KU theses published after 2005.

2. ProQuest dissertations & theses Provides online access to over 2 million dissertations and master's theses, many of which are available in full text for immediate downloading. Citations are available for dissertations dating from 1861 and full text online from 1997 for over 1,000 schools submitting to the ProQuest UMI database. More than 55,000 new citations are added to the database every year.

How do I find

dissertations?

http://www.lib.ku.edu

P for Proquest

Dissertations &

Theses

dyslexia AND creativity

Dissertations & Theses from the University of Kansas

Libraries Homepagehttp://lib.ku.edu

Another Database: Google Scholar

How to use Google Scholar?

G for Google

Scholar

LinkDate restriction

We now have: Articles from scholarly journals and dissertations by using 5 databases :

1 PsycInfo 2 ERIC 3 Proquest Dissertations and Theses 4 Dissertations & Theses from the University of Kansas 5 Google Scholar

Where are the Books? Books are found in the Library Catalog

http://www.lib.ku.edu

KU students can order books from

the Lawrence campus and have

them delivered to the Edwards

Campus in 2-3 days!

How to order a book from the Lawrence campus

Search

catalog

Book is checked out from Anschutz Library in Lawrence

Select “Recalls & Requests” to begin the order process.

Book Title 1.

2.

3.

Recall is the term to choose when the book is available but checked out . . .

A request is made for the specific book that is currently checked out to another person. The book will be returned to the library and sent to Edwards Campus for the requestor who will be sent notice of the book by email and then will pick book up at Edwards.

Does the library have E-Books?

To find e-Books by Subject

Search the Catalog, example:

“electronic books” AND sociology

Limit to Last 5 Years, if you want.

An increasing number of the new books the library owns are e-Books.

There are databases that access specifically e-Books

Ebrary Academic Complete Provides access to more than 78,000 e-books from 500 publishers. Covering broad subject areas.

HathiTrust digital library A digital repository of collections (books and journals) of some of the major research libraries in the United States

eBook Collection Contains a searchable collection of electronic books on the EBSCO platform which can be viewed or read online

Does the library have E-Journals?

www.lib.ku.edu

Reading

An e-journal titled Reading?

These are journals beginning with the word “reading” and the databases that hold them. Reading Teacher is the journal I want to look at.

Look closely to be sure that the publication date is current. Here we’re going to look in a database called “Wiley-Blackwell . . . “ because it continues publication of Reading Teacher to the present time.

Read the current articles in the most recent issue of Reading Teacher.

What are the library’s hours over the weekend?

Where is the library?

www.lib.ku.edu

Ask the Librarian:

Lissa Lordllord@ku.edu