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Welcome Back!
A Research Primer for
Graduate Students Regents Center Library The University of Kansas Fall 2014 Edwards Campus
Dissertation Research Blog http://dissertationresearch.blogspot.com
Library Home Page http://www.lib.ku.edu
Where’s the stuff
Articles
e-Journals
Newspapers
Books
e-Books
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?
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