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This document provides guidance on developing research skills such as choosing a focused topic, evaluating sources for credibility and bias, and using library resources like databases, subject guides, the catalog, and interlibrary loan to find relevant sources. It outlines tools for searching databases like Education Research Complete, finding journal articles, and getting research assistance from the library staff.
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- 2. Developing a Topic • Topic should not be too broad or too narrow • Use a thesaurus in a research database, such as ERIC, to look up synonyms of your search terms • Define the scope of your topic-who are your subjects? Example: adolescent male readers
- 3. Evaluating Sources • Credibility- what are the author’s credentials? • Accuracy-are there errors? Disproven theories? • Currency-outmoded information • Bias-is the author affiliated with a corporation or political organization?
- 4. • Online access to thousands of scholarly journal articles, magazines, and newspapers • 380,000 items in the library’s collection • Access to books and eBooks • Online subject guides • Interlibrary loan (to borrow items from other libraries)
- 8. Education Research Complete •Place words in quotation marks to search for an exact phrase •From the drop-down menu, you can search within the abstract or entire text of an article •Use an * to search for multiple word endings •Limit to “full text” and “scholarly peer- reviewed journals” •limit by date and language
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- 10. Education Research Complete: Search Results •You can email, save and print articles •View the reference citation by clicking on the yellow paper icon
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- 13. Getting to an Article • Click on “Locate Article” within a database to search all of our other databases for that article • Search the Journal Finder for the Journal Title
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- 17. Searching the Web • Search by domain: site:.edu, site:.gov or site:.org for educational, government, and NGO websites • In Google Scholar, you can search for items in UMW Libraries’ collection by going to “Preferences” and typing “University of Mary Washington” in the Library Links search box • Click “Save Preferences”
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