LIBRARY RESOURCES AND SERVICES EDUC 5P00 Social and Cultural Contexts of Education

Jennifer Thiessen, Education Librarian

Agenda

Searching for articles and books Search strategies Best databases Scholarly/peer-reviewed articles Refworks (managing/storing references)

Other resources & services RACER (interlibrary loan) APA 6th ed. Academic writing

Library website

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

Search Library catalogue

Databases

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

Saving, storing, managing articles… Refworks Create account Then export articles from database to

Refworks Share references with colleagues Create bibliography Write N Cite tutorial

APA (6th edition)

DOI numbers Isaac, C. A., Behar-Horenstein, L., & Koro-

Ljungberg, M. (2009). Women deans: Leadership becoming. International Journal of Leadership in Education, 12(2), 135-153. doi:10.1080/13603120802485102

More on APA

Usually found on first page of article

Use crossref.org to find a DOI number If no DOI, use URL

Owen, D. S. (2009). Privileged social identities and diversity leadership in higher education. Review of Higher Education, 32(2), 185-207. Retrieved from http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/review_of_higher_education/toc/rhe.32.2.html

APA help

Citation Style Guides (Brock Library) APA Tutorial (Harvard Graduate School

of Ed.)

Publication manual of the American Psychological Association 6th ed. (Library catalogue entry)

Academic Integrity/Academic writing Academic Integrity Policy (Brock) Know APA

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

Ed.) Use Refworks to keep track of your

references (so you know who to cite!) Writing Guides Books on academic writing in Education

For more help…

Visit the online tutorials page: https://learning.library.brocku.ca/

See the How do I…? page

Contact the Library Help Desk 905-688-5550 x. 3233

Contact your liaison librarian: Jennifer Thiessen