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Research: Multicultural Education
- 1. Academic Research from the KU Libraries Multicultural Education Lissa Lord llord@ku.edu July 6, 2011
- 2. KU Libraries Homepage http://www.lib.ku.edu Dissertation Research Blog http://dissertationresearch.blogspot.com Twitter at the Regents Center Library http://twitter.com/librarykuec Regents Center Library Homepage http://www.lib.ku.edu/RCLibrary/
- 3. If you know nothing about something take a look at Wikipedia. My search multicultural education
- 7. Because I knew nothing about how to get a topic for my paper I tried Wikipedia and searched: Multicultural Education Within one of the links I found in the Wikipedia article selected Journals and Newspapers American Indian Culture and Research Journal It costs money to get an article from this journal This is why we have KU Libraries Ask!
- 8. From Wikipedia to the Library: 1. How do we find the journal American Indian Culture and Research Journal?
- 10. American Indian Culture and Research Journal
- 13. If we came to the KU Libraries first how would we find articles on the subject of Multicultural Education?
- 17. multicultural education AND legislation Request full text emailed to you !
- 18. Remember: ERIC and Wilson OmniFile are both recommended databases for Education
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- 22. Library Catalog for How to find a book
- 24. Web Retrieve
- 25. Want the book sent to EC?
- 29. Google Scholar now that you know how databases work
- 30. To search Google Scholar, go through the library so that the databases are connected to your Google search
- 34. Quick! Citation
- 36. Questions? Lissa Lord llord@ku.edu