Teacher ResearchEDG 506

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Database Searching

Information Access And User ServicesReference LibrariansLawral Wornek 610.902.8537

ldw36@cabrini.eduAnne Schwelm 610.902.8536

aschwelm@cabrini.eduSara Drew 610.902.8537

sara@cabrini.edu

Circulation and Interlibrary LoanSherry Becht 610.902.8538

sherry.becht@cabrini.edu

Or contact us through the Meebo box on our website.

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Accessing The Library’s Resources

• Holy Spirit Library homepagewww.cabrini.edu/library

• Also accessible through– CabriniOne (Under the “Cabrini”

tab)http://one.cabrini.edu

There are tutorials on the website that will walk you through using Cavalog, our online library catalog.

Windows Media Plug-in is required for Firefox users.

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Before you start your research, you should:

• Define your topic• Locate background information and

identify keywords/terms – these are essential for database searching– What are the key concepts in your

topic?– What are the educational concepts?– What terms will you use?

• Translate the topic into a search query• Choose the proper database for your

topic

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To search the library’s databases for scholarly articles, use one of the database links on the homepage.

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Select Education to get to a list of resources for education students.

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Select a database from the list. Education Research Complete, ERIC, and ProQuest Education Journals are good places to start. Depending on your topic, you may also want to try searching PsycARTICLES or Mental Measurements Yearbook.

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If you are accessing the library’s databases from off-campus, you will be asked for a username and password at this point.

If you do not know or remember your password, or if your password does not work, please call ITR at 610-902-8366 for assistance.

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Use keywords in multiple boxes rather than full questions or ideas when searching. Also make sure that “Full Text” and “Scholarly (Peer Reviewed) Journals” are selected.

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Once you have a list of search results, double check that “Full Text” and “Scholarly (Peer Reviewed) Journals” are still selected. You can also narrow the publication date for your results from this screen.

Click on the title of an article to read an abstract and for more options.

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The center panel of the detailed record gives you the most information about the article.

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It contains the abstract, a brief summary of the article; the keywords, words or phrases that the authors use to describe the article; and the subject terms, words or phrases that the database administrators have assigned to the article to categorize the topic.

The left bar of the detailed record allows you to access full text of the article. Either “PDF Full Text” will appear, as it does here, and/or “HTML Full Text” will appear. Either will take you to the complete article, but the PDF is preferable, if available, as it will also contain any images or tables that appeared in the original article.

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The right side of the detailed record offers numerous ways to save information about the article.

The E-mail option will send the article citation, as well as an attachment of the actual article, to the email address of your choice (it does not need to be a cabrini.edu address).

The Cite option displays the article citation in various styles including but not limited to APA and MLA styles.

The print and save options save or print the article citation and a permanent link to the detailed record only. Use the full text options on the left side of the screen to print or save the actual article.

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Thank you for your attention.

Questions?Please don’t hesitate to call!

When you have a minute please visit the link at the bottom of the course guide for this class to complete a survey.

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