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Jennifer Thiessen Liaison Librarian, Education

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Jennifer ThiessenLiaison Librarian, Education

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Finding articles Library Databases Citation chasing (using a reference list)▪ Library catalogue

Saving, storing and managing articles (Refworks) Make Refworks do your work for you

APA / writing resources

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Click on Education to see a list of

databases for that subject area.

Click on Research, then Databases.

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Click on a database name, then start

searching.

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Recommended: Education Research Complete; ERIC@ Scholarsportal

Tips: Limit to scholarly (peer reviewed) journals Look for descriptors (or subject headings) for

more focused results Not all articles are available online in full text

format “Get it” button looks for the full text throughout

all of the Library’s databases

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Have you found a fantastic article (either from a database search or your reading list)?

Use the reference list of that article (esp. if it is a recent article) to find additional relevant articles

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Search for TITLE (of book)OR JOURNAL TITLEhttp://www.library.brocku.ca/

What if Brock doesn’t have it? Use RACER (Interlibrary Loan) to request

it Borrow from another University library

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RefworksCreate accountThen export articles from database

to RefworksShare references with colleaguesCreate bibliographyWrite N Cite tutorial

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Citation Style Guides (Brock Library) APA Tutorial (Harvard Graduate School

of Ed.)

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Visit the Graduate Education Research Guideor Education Course Pages

See the Help pages

Contact the Library Help Desk 905-688-5550 x. 3233 or use email form

Contact your liaison librarian: Jennifer Thiessen (phone, chat, email)