Research Guides: Education: EDCI 541

Tutorials

Quick Tutorial on Searching
12 minute tutorial on basic search techniques using ERIC database.
Tricks of the Trade
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:
--phrase searching
--truncation (word stem searching)
--Boolean logic (combining key words with AND and OR)
--Nesting (grouping ideas)
Long tutorial on searching in education field
Lengthy, seven part tutorial designed to teach research strategies to College of Education students. Topics include understanding the difference between scholarly journals and popular magazines, selecting a database, database searching (identifying key word and using them successfully with Boolean "and" and "or," ) evaluating sources found and avoiding plagiarism.
Education Source
How-to on searching Education Source and ERIC simultaneously. Demonstrates keyword searching, using EBSCO folders to keep track of useful articles, and how to find the full text of articles. Education Source is a subscription database which indexes more journals than ERIC or Education Full Text databases. It is an enlargement of Education Full Text, so searching both databases normally would not increase the number of articles found
EndNote Basic Tutorials
Learn EndNote Basic in 15 minutes. This is a condensed version of the workshop

Basic Library Information and Important Links

Quick notes:

1. Education books are at the Humanities, Social Science & Education Library, called HSSE, in Stewart Center. The E in HSSE stands for Education. Here is a tutorial which is a tour of the HSSE Library. Tour of HSSE

2. Purdue Libraries home page is www.lib.purdue.edu

Here is a link to a tutorial on using the home page: Home Page Tutorial

3. To see if we own a book in print or electronic format, click on the "Books & Media" tab.

5. 85+% of our education journals are in electronic format. To find a specific journal online click on "Online Journals" link. Print journals are located in the Periodicals area of HSSE Library. Enter from HSSE 1^st floor – northeast corner.

See map: https://www.lib.purdue.edu/sites/default/files/libraries/hsse/firstFloorDetail.pdf

6. I recommend using specific databases, rather than the “Search All” tab. The most important databases in education are Education Source and ERIC. Or click on the icon for “Databases”and scan list.

8. 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:

9. 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.

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.

Quick Links

Important links:

· Education Librarian, Judy Nixon: jnixon@purdue.edu

· Education Subject Guide: http://guides.lib.purdue.edu/education

· Endnote Basic Guide: http://guides.lib.purdue.edu/EndNoteBasic

· Tutorial for Education Students: http://www.lib.purdue.edu/content/tutorials-education

Map of Libraries

Interactive Map of Libraries
Click the link to see a map of the Libraries throughout campus. To get directions to a specific library, click on the pin and follow the "Driving Directions" link.