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- WorldCat LocalIt's all right here: books and articles and DVDs and more; click "view now" or "Get Text @ UK" for e-access; click "Request item" for pick-up at your library; request items via ILLiad if not held on campus.
- E-Journals DatabaseSearch by journal titles
- ProQuest DatabasesMake your own combination of ProQuest databases, or search them all!
- EBSCOhostMake your own combination of EBSCOhost databases, or search them all!
- ERIC (Educational Resources Information Center) [ProQuest]
- ProQuest Education Journals
- Web of SciencePowerful database, covers all subjects, indexes cited references. Another good source for DOI numbers.
- Dissertations and ThesesAll subjects; full text available for most of the dissertations
- JSTORAll subjects; all full text; all scholary; back to the first volume for each journal covered.
- Academic Search PremierHuge source for all subjects, all types of articles, scholary and popular.
- Google Scholar (UK)For journal full-text, look for the familiar "Get Text @ UK"; otherwise click "Other UK means of access." (If off-campus set your Scholar settings Library Links for University of Kentucky.)
- PsycINFO (EBSCOhost)Very full records: good for exporting to EndNote. Get your DOIs here!
- Business Source Complete
- Opposing ViewpointsCovering hot topics this tool gives you easy access to articles, statistics, overviews, etc.
- CQ ResearcherAlso covers hot topics!
- SPORT Discus
- MedLine (EBSCOhost)
- CINAHL (Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature) with Full Text
- REHABDATA Database
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New journals!
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- Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders
- Mathematics teaching in the middle school
- Journal of GLBT family studies
- Journal of school violence
- Journal of research on educational effectiveness
- International journal of engineering education
New databases...
- APA PsycNETAccess APA handbooks (possibly more books coming soon). You can browse the e-books, but check the catalog to get the print version of the books.
- Oxford Bibliographies Online: EducationBug: don't enter search terms in all upper case (unless you want to match on an acronym such as SAT). For example enter terms with capitalization such as thelin or Thelin
- Journal Citation Reports2011 data now available:
Info on more than 10,500 of the world’s most highly cited, peer reviewed journals in 232 disciplines
-- Nearly 2,500 publishers and 82 countries represented
-- Over 1,400 regional journals
-- 526 journals receiving their first Journal Impact Factor
Searching tips
Approaches to searching:
- Your own keywords; use of wildcards and boolean combinations can improve your results. Use this worksheet for thinking up keywords.
- The database's index terms: retrieve results with precision; works well when your keywords might match many synonyms. Look for these terms in the descriptors or subjects field of a full record. Search for these terms in a database's thesaurus or browse for them in a field's index.
- An article's cited references: no need to think up keywords: find the record for a good article then search to find articles that have cited it; find related articles (searches for refs in common). Web of Science is the best database for this.
- Ask other readers: ask your professors, e-mail authors, hang out at conferences.
- Browsing: good old-fashioned technique; related books tend to be shelved together; also through serendipity you might find useful sources.
Links to E-Journal Articles
In your database results, look for the Get Text @ UK button. This button links you to choices of E-Journal access-- if we don't have e-access, then try the link to InfoKat or order a copy using ILLiad. In WorldCat Local you can find article links as well as links to E-Journals and e-books: just click Get Text @ UK. Look for the link in Google Scholar, too (if off-campus set your Scholar preferences to University of Kentucky).
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- WorldCat LocalYou have a cite to a journal article or a book or a poem or a movie or whatever... just paste it into WorldCat Local! Learn if we have it. For possible e-text... in each WorldCat record click "Get Text @ UK." If we have the physical item click to request it. If we don't have it click to request it via InterLibrary Loan.
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