This document provides guidance on finding and managing academic articles and references. It outlines resources for searching education databases and library catalogues. It also explains how to save articles to Refworks, a citation management tool, and find additional relevant articles through citation chasing. Formatting citations and creating bibliographies using APA or other styles is also addressed.

1. Jennifer Thiessen Liaison Librarian, Education

2. Finding articles Library Databases Citation chasing (using a reference list) Library catalogue Saving, storing and managing articles (Refworks) Make Refworks do your work for you APA / writing resources

4. Click on Education to see a list of databases for that subject area. Click on Research, then Databases.

5. Click on a database name, then start searching.

6. Recommended: Education Research Complete; ERIC@ Scholarsportal Tips: Limit to scholarly (peer reviewed) journals Look for descriptors (or subject headings) for more focused results Not all articles are available online in full text format “ Get it” button looks for the full text throughout all of the Library’s databases

7. Have you found a fantastic article (either from a database search or your reading list)? Use the reference list of that article (esp. if it is a recent article) to find additional relevant articles

9. Search for TITLE (of book) OR JOURNAL TITLE http://www.library.brocku.ca/ What if Brock doesn’t have it? Use RACER (Interlibrary Loan) to request it Borrow from another University library

10. Refworks Create account Then export articles from database to Refworks Share references with colleagues Create bibliography Write N Cite tutorial

11. Citation Style Guides (Brock Library) APA Tutorial (Harvard Graduate School of Ed.)

14. Visit the Graduate Education Research Guide or Education Course Pages See the Help pages Contact the Library Help Desk 905-688-5550 x. 3233 or use email form Contact your liaison librarian: Jennifer Thiessen (phone, chat, email)