EDUCATION RESEARCH TIPS

For Online, Full-Text Journal and Magazine Articles

  1. At the GALILEO home page (http://www.galileo.peachnet.edu), click on Education subject group (on the left-hand list) or the Quick Start link for EBSCOhost (lower right column).
  1. Select Academic Search Elite @ EBSCOhost. (You may also wish to search for articles on kids'  reading levels; Searchasaurus is an option under the Education databases list).
  1. Click the full-text option box and as keywords, type in your word(s) of interest:
    Examples: girls and math (and joins 2 terms)
    learning and disability not dyslexia [not excludes a term]
    parenting

*Try BOTH EBSCO's databases and Periodical Abstracts Research II because each indexes different journals. PARII has a sub-set for peer-reviewed, scholarly journals, if required.   Academic Search Elite has a box to check before searching if you wish to limit your results to peer-reviewed, scholarly journals.

  1. If you have a citation already and just need the article text, with PERII use the search by publication option.  With EBSCO databases, use the journal: field to limit your results to a certain journal, if it is indexed in full-text there.

ERIC Digests

  1. Select the ERIC Index from the Education subject group of databases on GALILEO.
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  1. Search it for abstracts (summaries only) on topics of interest to you. Many of these will note an ERIC DIGEST number (e.g., ED 398343) which you can then use for full-text from the AskERIC Virtual Library. [This Web site also includes lesson plans--for future reference.] Note titles of interest in your results, or highlight titles and right click your mouse to copy one. Go directly to www.ed.gov/databases/ERIC_Digests/index/ or
  1. Select Education (WWW links) also in the Education group of databases on GALILEO.
  1. Choose AskERIC, then Virtual Library, then ERIC Resources, then ERIC Digest Collection. Type or paste in the title(s) from the ERIC Index, and search for the digest(s).

Other Education Resources in the SGC Library

Legal Notes for Education, kept in a red binder in the Current Periodicals corner, with many other journals covering education. (See Holdings Notebook in Reference.)

U.S. Supreme Court education cases are in books indexed in GIL. You may use the GIL library catalog (http://gil.sgc.edu) to locate any books owned by SGC. Search by "keyword" using quotation marks or by author/subject/title. Call numbers are at the bottom of each book's record.

Web Sites

Use GALILEO's Internet Resource Collection for Education topics, or Web search engines like Google (www.google.com) and Ask Jeeves (www.jeevs.com). See also the library's online guide, "Select and Evaluate Internet sites" on the home page (http://library.sgc.edu).

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