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Electronically request and receive articles, book chapters, or other resources when unavailable in full-text from the NU Library.
Content: Includes full-text scholarly journals and dissertations supporting research on the theory and practice of education. It also covers literature and research on special education, home schooling, adult education, and hundreds of related topics.
Purpose: Provides access to a large range of full-text journals and dissertations supporting research on the theory and practice of education..
Special Features: Includes a read-aloud feature.
Content: Reference sources, primarily books but also videos and business cases.
Purpose: Use for finding reference sources like encyclopedias and handbooks that provide contextual or explanatory material.
Special Features: Includes Sage Navigator
Content: Scholarly, peer-reviewed journal articles only, in health science, biomedical science, engineering, social science, and the humanities.
Purpose: Use for scholarly research in most fields.
Special Features: Includes discipline hubs for browsing and citation search.
View the link below to see when to use the library database v. Google
Tip 1:
When researching a question, don't use complete sentences. Instead, use the most important keywords!
For example:
How are mobile devices affecting education?
The most important keywords are:
mobile devices AND education
Tip 2:
Use Boolean operators to modify your search. This is very useful when you are searching for journal articles!
Boolean Operators
AND OR NOT
AND will narrow your search results:
"global warming" AND glaciers
OR will expand your search results:
"mobile devices" OR smartphones
NOT will exclude certain results:
cowboys NOT football
Tip 3
Use quotation marks to search for an exact phrase. This will help you find more specific results! For example:
social media = 8221 results
"social media" = 1140 results
Tip 4
Use an asterisk (*) after a set of letters to perform a truncated search. This will find variations of a word. For example:
musc*
will find results containing the words...
muscle, muscular, musculoskeletal, etc.
Search for articles, books, dissertations, and more
Sample Search
Run this search in All EBSCO Databases:
Limit the search fields to "Subject"
Limit the date publication to the last 5 years:
Begin with the BIG IDEA: organizational innovation
Focus on major subtopic: leader OR leadership
Narrow focus to problem: issues OR problems OR challenges OR barriers
Identify other terms or synonyms: Look at the SUBJECTS field to see how expert indexers categorize or "tag" major themes in articles. Incorporate these ideas into your searches. Consider limiting to a discipline.
See the examples below:
Note the highlighted terms from the search!
Finding full-text is easy if you know what you're looking for (refer to image below):
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