Education

The Libraries Home Page is your link to all the resources the Libraries purchase including databases, books, e-books, e-journals. It is also how you can access and get more information about Libraries' services such as Interlibrary Loan, Ask a Librarian, and other helpful library guides.

Would you like to know 4 quick tricks that work in most databases for key word searching? Find out how by viewing and listening to this 10 minute tutorial, which covers:

1. phrase searching
2. truncation (word stem searching)
3. Boolean logic (combining key words with AND and OR)
4. Nesting (grouping ideas)

To:          COE Graduate Students

FROM:  Judy Nixon, Education Librarian

DATE:  August, 2019

RE:  Things I would like tell you today:

(Click on the links below for more information about each topic.)

1.       Your first stop is a Library Guide for Graduate Students.  

• http://guides.lib.purdue.edu/grip    

• This guide includes a list of upcoming workshops for grad students.Look under the tab “CALENDAR.”

• The calendar will be updated soon with some virtual workshops this fall semester.  

 2.        Judy Nixon is your librarian. 

• Need help identifying the right database or the right key words? 
• Would you like the library to buy a book? 
• Ask me.  jnixon@purdue.edu

3.       Education books are at the Humanities, Social Science & Education Library, called HSSE, in Stewart Center.  The E in HSSE stands for Education. Link to a map of HSSE .

4.      Purdue Libraries home page is www.lib.purdue.edu   Use this path to get to library-paid for materials. 

a.       To see if we own a book in print or electronic format, click on the arrow next to "Search All" and change to “Books & Media."

b.       Most of our journals are in electronic format.   To find a specific journal click on “Online Journals” link.

c.       The most important databases in education are Education Source and ERIC.  Click on the “Databases” link.

Here are direct links

·       for Education Source:   https://go.lib.purdue.edu/db/edsource

·       for ERIC:                       https://go.lib.purdue.edu/db/ericebsco    

5.       Watch your email for quick tutorials I write, called “Two Minute Tips”, available at http://guides.lib.purdue.edu/two_minute_tips   

6.       Need quick help?  Use our “Ask a Librarian” service to chat or email a librarian.  Go to https://go.lib.purdue.edu/web/askalib  or look for this link:  

7.   Need to renew a book, or ask Interlibrary Loan to get a book or article that Purdue doesn’t own, click on the “SERVICE” tab.   

8.   EndNote Basic helps you to organize your research material, including journal articles, into your own online database.  Want to learn how to use EndNote Basic  and sign up for an account; go to http://guides.lib.purdue.edu/EndNoteBasic . 

9.   Need help finding education related resources? 

• Go to URL:http://guides.lib.purdue.edu/education
• Here is what the page looks like. 
• Under each tab are hints, tutorials and links.