Finding Articles Using Education Databases

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Finding Articles Using Education Databases

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• HKIEd Library

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Outline

• Basics and Overview
• Database in Focus ERIC on EBSCOhost
• Another Educational Resource Example ProQuest
  Education Journals

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Why use an e-database?
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Because

• Use electronic databases to search for local and
  international literature.
• Electronic databases contain recent information
  from book reviews, journal articles, conference
  papers, and other materials.
• Some databases provide the complete full text
  articles or papers.
• Other databases will just provide abstracts of
  the journal papers.

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Because

• An e-database is an organized collection of
  information. It supports search for journal
  title, article title, author, issue, volume,
  etc., which is more flexible and in-depth.

Journal article
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Can Library Catalogue retrieve journal articles?
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No, because

• We can only search for journal title in EdCAT,
  but not on individual article title or author.

Journal title search
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Why use an e-database?

• Therefore, e-database is extremely useful when
  you want to find articles containing particular
  details,
• e.g. keyword peer assessment in classroom
• You could retrieve journal articles on this topic
  from e-databases, but you could not find the same
  information via EdCAT. This is because EdCAT
  allows search in journal title only the search
  does not go into details of each issue or volume
  of the journal.

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Some prominent e-databases on EducationLibrary
Website -gt E-Resources Tab

• Some examples of Chinese electronic databases
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• ???????? CEPS Chinese Electronic Periodicals
  Service
• Some examples of local electronic databases
• Hong Kong Journals Online
• Dissertations and Theses Collection (DTC)
• Chinese ERIC (Chinese University of Hong Kong)

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Some prominent e-databases on EducationLibrary
Website -gt E-Resources Tab

• Some examples of international electronic
  databases
• ERIC (Education Resources Information Center)
• ProQuest Education Journals
• Academic Search Premier
• A Education
• PsycINFO

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Identify your keywords

• Keywords are words or phrases that should appear
  in the information you are searching for.
• Keywords are used to do search in the library
  catalogue and e-databases.
• For example, your topic is
• Study the effect of small class teaching in
  Hong Kong
• Keywords are
• small class teaching
• hong kong
• Use Boolean Operators (AND/OR/NOT), Wildcards
  (), etc, where appropriate, e.g. small class
  teaching AND hong kong AND adolenscen

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Notation of e-databases
Finding e-databases
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Database in Focus ERIC
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What is ERIC database?

• Provides access to education literature and
  resources and to information from journals
  included in the Current Index of Journals in
  Education and Resources in Education Index. It
  contains full text with citation and abstracts
  from educational and education-related journals.

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Find ERIC by Browsing "E" (or browse by education
subject or search ERIC)
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Access to ERIC database
Enter keywords
Search Results
Limit your search
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Example

• Your research topic
• Teaching thinking skills in small class settings
• Identify the Keywords
• thinking skills AND small class
• Use indexes / thesaurus / descriptors to check
  related terms where necessary.
• How many records retrieved?

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Example
Full Text available
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Example
Check Librarys holdings
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Searching tips Expand your search

• Use expanders from the database search screen
  to expand your search
• Use Boolean operator OR to include more search
  terms
• e.g. thinking skills or critical thinking or
  decision making skills
• Use truncation () to expand your search term in
  alternative way
• e.g. learn to search for learning, learns,
  learner, etc.

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Searching tips Narrow your search

• Use Limiter from the database search screen to
  limit your search results in various way
• Consider the suggested Narrow Search Results by
  Subject from the search result screen
• Use Boolean operator AND to limit search
  results to a narrower scene
• e.g. peer assessment AND higher education

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Reduced from over 300 results to 53 by selecting
peer reviewed and 2000 and after
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Try it yourself

• Topic code switching in Hong Kong
• Suggested keywords
• Code switching and Hong Kong
• How many records retrieved?
• Limit your search to full text articles
• How many full text articles available?

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Try it yourself

• Topic Are electronic books effective in teaching
  children reading?
• Suggested keywords
• electronic books and children reading
• Limit your search to full text articles
• How many records retrieved?

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Can I search across multiple EBSCOhost databases?
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Searching Multiple Databases in Ebscohost
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How can I export my search results?
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Add to Folder Save / Print / Email / Export
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Add to Folder Save / Print / Email / Export
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We can export the results directly to RefWorks
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Supplementary Notes

• For more information on how to export references
  from e-databases to RefWorks, please refer to the
  following website
• http//www.lib.ied.edu.hk/refworks/import.html

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Try it yourself

• Export your search results to
• An email account or
• Bibliographic management software such as RefWorks

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Another Education Resources ProQuest Education
Journals
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What is ProQuest Education Journals database?

• Covers almost 400 leading journals in education
  and related fields.

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Access to ProQuest Education Journals database
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Access to ProQuest Education Journals database
Keywords
Limit to Full Text
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Access to ProQuest Education Journals database
Full text can be accessed via EdLINK or PDF Full
Text link
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E.g. search small class education
Suggested Topics ? Class size AND Academic
achievement
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We can also Email, Print, Save, Export, etc.
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Try yourself with different databases

• Tentative topic
• School-based stress management training for
  adolescents
• Suggested keywords
• stress management AND adolescen
• Limit your search to full text articles
• How many records retrieved?

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Try yourself

• Search and retrieve full-text via ERIC and
  ProQuest Education Journals
• Keyword gifted education AND teaching method
• Limit your results to full text
• Try to observe
• How many records retrieved from each electronic
  databases?
• Evaluate the relevancy of the results retrieved
  from the TWO databases.

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