EDUCATION RESEARCH COMPLETE

What is E.R.C.?

ERC is a database that contains a huge collection of education journal articles.

Full text journal articles covering all grade levels and many educational topics are available.

Now…how do I get there?

First, Go to the ASU website and click on the Library Link.

Second, click on article databases

Then click the alphabetical list of article databases button

Click on the letter E and you will be able to find Education Research Complete.

EDUCATION RESEARCH COMPLETE

What Journals Will I Find?

Some journals you will find on E.R.C. are: Behavior Modification Christian Education Journal Journal of School Health Literacy Research & Instruction Personality & Individual Differences Journal of School Psychology Reclaiming Children & Youth

Many journal articles found within E.R.C. will be full text articles.

How do I Search?

There are two ways you can search within E.R.C. You can run a:

Basic Search Advanced Search

Basic Search?

First, type in the term you want to search for in the search box

Next, select any limits and choose your search mode to help narrow your results

Finally, click search

Now you are free to view the results of your search

Basic Search for the Visual Learner

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Advanced Search? First click on the advanced search button

under the search box Then type in the terms you wish to

search in the search boxes given Then choose your search mode and set

limits to narrow your search Finally, click the search button Now you are free to view the results of

your search

Advanced Search for the Visual Learner

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Example Search

What do the symbols mean?

A PDF is a photocopy of the original journal article. It retains all the pictures and graphs from the original article

The add to folder option allows you to add this article to a folder within the database. This allows you to keep up with articles you have viewed.

The HTML version of an article is a reproduction of the original journal article. It retains the information from the original, but not the images and graphs.

When the mouse is moved over this symbol you can view important article information including the article abstract.

I’ve found my article…now what?

Now that you’ve found your article you can:

Add the article to your folder

E-mail the article to yourself

Print the article

Save the article

A Few More Important Facts

The wild card in this database is a question mark The wild card allows you to do a search for

multiple words by placing a question mark in the search term. Example: Fe?t will return results on both Feet and Feat.

Truncation in this database is represented by an asterisk.

The Truncation symbol allows you to run a search on multiple words by placing an asterisk close to the end of the term. Example: Hors* will return results on Horse, Horses,

and Horseshoe.