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Each of these sixteen clearinghouses was responsible for collecting educational literature on a educational topic. Once the material was gathered, indexed and abstracted, then it appeared in one of the two sources below:
A monthly index of reports, dissertations, research studies, teacher manuals and classroom guides, lesson plans that are gathered at the sixteen clearinghouses.
CURRENT INDEX TO JOURNALS IN EDUCATIONA guide to current literature in journals on or related to the subject of education. It covers articles in over 1,000 major educational and education related journals.
1. go to Library homepage at http://www.se.edu/lib/
2. click on the FIND link.
3. click on the Articles link
4. scroll down to the Periodical Databases category
5. Click on the FirstSearch on campus link.
6. Under Databases , select List All, or click where it says Select Topic or Database
7. Choose ERIC by clicking on the word ERIC
Three levels of searching:
basic Search: use for simple searches
advanced search: use for more complex searches where you need to search different
indexes
expert search: use only if you need a great
amount of flexibility in your searching or you know how to search
using boolean type searches
Boolean Searching
Boolean searching is where you can type in words or phrases or
combination of words and phrases
example:
dyslexia and learning
1. OR Search
OR expands your search. By using OR, you
can search for several related terms at once:
for example:
2. AND SEARCH
AND shrinks your search down. When using AND, you want all
of the terms in your search to be in every record found
(dyslexia or learning disabilities) and teen*
The ERIC database provides two ways to limit your search. One way to limit your search is to proceed your search term with the two letter abbreviation of the index that you want to search, like su for subject and au for author, as is shown below in column three of the table:
To limit search
| SEARCH | EXAMPLE
Using indexes |
EXAMPLE (single word) | EXAMPLE (phrase) |
| Subject | dyslexia (and choose subject index) | su:dyslexia | "drug abuse" (and choose
subject or subject phrase indexes) OR SU=("drug abuse") |
| Author | smith (and choose author index) | au:smith | "king, christopher" (and choose author index) |
| title | discipline (and choose title index) | ti:discipline | ti=("learning disabilities")
(and choose the title index) this will find documents whose title is learning disabilities and nothing else OR "learning disabilities" (and choose title index) This will find titles that have learning disabilities in the title |
| descriptors | cultural (and choose descriptor index) | de:cultural | de=("learning disabilities")
(and choose descriptor index) OR "learning Disabilities" (and choose descriptor index) |
| abstract | censorship (and choose abstract index) | ab:censorship | N/A |
| number | 274337 (and choose accession number index) | no:ed274337 | N/A |
| record type | 143 (and choose record type index) | rt:143 | N/A |
| Keyword | Abstract | Accession Number | Author | Author Phrase |
| Corporate Author Phrase | Descriptors | Descriptors Phrase | ERIC Digest | Identifiers |
| Identifiers Phrase | Journal Announcement | Level of Availability | Major Descriptors | Major Descriptors Phrase |
| Minor Descriptors | Minor Descriptors Phrase | Notes | Publication Date | Place of Publication |
| Personal Name Phrase | Report Number | Record Type | Record Type Phrase | Standard Number |
| Source | Source Phrase | Sponsoring Agency | Sponsoring Agency Phrase | Subject |
| Subject Phrase | Target Audience | Title | Title Phrase |
Limiting your search by type of document.
There are many different types of documents in the
ERIC database. To limit your search to a particular type of document,
you need to know the document type code
| code | publication type | code | Publication type |
| 010 | book | 120 | position paper |
| 021 | conference proceedings | 131 | bibliography |
| 041 | doctoral dissertation | 132 | directory/catalog |
| 042 | master's thesis | 134 | vocabulary/classification |
| 052 | classroom teaching guide | 141 | report, descriptive |
| 070 | information analysis | 142 | evaluation/feasibility report |
| 080 | journal article | 143 | research/technical |
| 110 | numerical data | 160 | test/questionnaire |
This list of Publication/document type or (record type) codes
is found in The Thesaurus of ERIC Descriptors 12ed 1990 on
page xvii
information obtained from the help section of ERIC on FirstSearch
The ERIC database is also available on EBSCOHost. To search ERIC,
you type in your search terms just like you do in any other database in
EBSCOHost. You can limit your search to:
ERIC ON THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION WEBSITE
The ERIC database is also available on at the Department of Education Site at: http://www.eric.ed.gov/. To search ERIC here, you type in your search terms and you can search in the following fields: