Search Tips
Search by keywords and small phrases. Maximize your keyword searches with boolean searching.
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- OR
- NOT
Use "quotation marks" to search for whole phrases.
Use the database’s built in limiting features. Some databases have a filter for full-text or scholarly journals.
Consider truncation. The symbol used is usually *.
EDUCAT* will retrieve:
education, educate, educators, educator, educated, etc.
Try using Subject terms, which refers to synonym words/phrases.
Databases
Try Start Your Research first! Search results can be limited to citations from Peer Reviewed journals. Search all Ebsco
- Dissertations & Theses GlobalMulti-subject. World's largest collection of full text theses and dissertations. Contains 1.7 million full-text graduate works and 3.8 million abstracted or indexed records along with the ability to cross-search with other ProQuest resources. (1861-present).
- Education SourceScholarly research in education & education-related social issues. All levels of education from early childhood to higher education, and all educational specialties, such as multilingual education, health education, & testing. 1900-present.
- ERICEducation journals & documents (research reports, evaluation studies, curriculum guides & lesson plans collected by the U.S. Dept. of Education). 1966-present.
- PsycINFOPeer reviewed journal articles and books in psychology, counseling and related fields, such as sociology, linguistics, medicine, law, physiology, business, psychiatry, and anthropology. Includes international material selected from more than 2,500 periodicals in more than 27 languages. 1887-present.
- Web of ScienceOffers the ability to do a Cited Reference search as well a keyword search that includes Times Cited in the search result citations. A keyword search defaults to search all components of Web of Science, so you can limit to "Web of Science Core Collection" under the Search In pull-down.
- ScopusCitation database of high-quality peer-reviewed literature in scientific journals, books, and conference proceedings with added functionality to identify research trends, and view metrics at the journal, document and author level. Scopus also offer citations counts.