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Special Education / SPED 992
Early Childhood Intervention
Edwards Campus Spring Semester 2015
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Databases / Peer-review journals / Articles
Library Catalog / Books / e-Books
e-Journals / by subject or title words
Dissertations / World-wide or KU authored
Subject and Course Guides
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Research by Subject & Course Guides
Education Resources has more information at the present time than Special Education.
If the article wasn’t found: Remember Interlibrary Loan will help you find it.
Found 3 copies of the article
One good article leads to more good articles. Don’t forget to look at the References the author used to write this good article. And, take a look at the articles that cited it. Copy and paste all the citations you think might be relevant to your thesis. You don’t have to use them in your paper but if you want them you’ll know where they are.
What did we just do?
Libraries Homepage: www.lib.ku.edu
Subject Guides: Education
Database: PsycINFO
Search: “early childhood intervention” AND “special education”
Selected an article
Looked at the articles that cited this article
Looked at the references at the end of the article itself
Read the full text article
What about Google Scholar?
Web of Science is another good database to use for most subjects, including education. 263 articles in WOS sited this article.
Books ?
E-Books?
Want an electronic book?
Another book search without the “electronic books” designation.
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Not very recent, so try finding books published in the last 5 years.
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E-Journals
Best to look for specific titles of journals that you have noticed in your research or that an instructor has recommended.
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 KansasContains 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 & thesesProvides 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.
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