John H. Evans Library & Learning Commons

EDS 4090 RESEARCH SEMINAR

EVANS LIBRARY RESOURCES

UPDATE

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

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DAAgenda and Introduction

Finding Books

Finding Articles

APA Style Manual

Research Assistance

Wrap-Up

Q&A

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Research Guides 5

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Evans Library Home Page – lib.fit.edu

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ESWhere do I begin?

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RESEARCH G

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ESHere is the summary of research guides related to Education

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EDS 4090 Research Guide

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How do I search for books?

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RESEARCH G

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E –ERICERIC

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ERIC –Homepage

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Let’s use the Advanced Search

option

ERIC –Advanced Search page

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Let’s use the search terms middle school students AND

Higher order thinking

ERIC

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Let’s do a sample search for Educations Documents (ED) and Educational Journals (EJ) in ERIC

Placing quotation marks around search terms keeps it as a

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ERICResults listing

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ERICResult #1 – Example of full text ERIC Document (ED)

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ERIC RESULTS PAG

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Result #1 – Bibliographic record of ED with pdf

ERICResults #3 –Example of full text ERIC journal article (EJ)

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Result #3 – Bibliographic record of EJ with pdf

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Result #5 – Is this available in full text through the Evans Library databases? Choose find in a library

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Then, choose continue

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It’s not available – now what do I do? Request an Interlibrary Loan!

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Result #6 – Is this available in full text? Here’s how you can find out if we have this article full text if accessing ERIC from off-campus

Copy the Article Title

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Then, go to the Library website, and paste the article title in Summon. Then, click on “Search Library”.

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Here’s your citation of the article. Click on the article title to see if we have this available in full text.

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It’s not available – now what do I do? Request an Interlibrary Loan!

ERIC

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Want to keep track of your references?

ERICCheck the added icon next to the result you wish to export to the clipboard

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Then, choose the link to items in My Clipboard

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Click the Export citations button

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Choose the Citation Manager option and then click on download. File will be saved in ris format.

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Save file and then choose OK

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Then log in to your Ref Works account from the library web site lib.fit.edu

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Let’s log in!

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Now, let’s import our two ERIC records – choose References and then Import

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Select Data Source and Database as noted and then browse your computer for the ris file you saved. Then, choose the Import button.

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Choose View Last Imported Folder

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There they are!

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REFWO

RKSMore information on RefWorks and APA

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Need more help?

Cheryl DavisInformation Advocate, Education & Interdisciplinary Studiescdavis05@fit.edu(321) 674-8766

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