Education 603, 608 & 612: Educational Research
Electronic Resources
Librarian
Livingston Lord Library
Minnesota State University Moorhead
119 Library
1104 7th Ave S
Moorhead, MN 56563
email: voeller@mnstate.edu
voice: 218 477 2348
fax: 218 477 5924
Must use the LibProxy service
to access the library's databases from off campus!!!
To Find Books:
MSUM MnPALS
Will search holdings of Minnesota State, Concordia, NDSU, and other
libraries in the MnSCU/PALS system for books, videos, government publications,
& other materials. Use Interlibrary Loan to request
books from any library in our system.
MnLink
Search library catalog across Minnesota. Includes many library catalogs
not present in PALS.
To Find Journal
Articles:
Electronic
Databases:
ERIC
(Access through Cambridge Scientific Abstracts)
ERIC
is the Education Resources Information Center. It provides access to
education-related journal and non-journal literature. Sponsored by the U.S.
Department of Education, it provides full citations and abstracts for journal
articles, books, curricula, government documents, dissertations, reports, and
other educational materials.
Also note the ERIC Search Wizard which can navigate the
ERIC thesaurus on-line to identify the controlled vocabulary for searching the ERIC database. As you navigate the thesaurus, you will encounter, for most terms, a definition along with identified related terms, broader terms, and narrower
terms at: http://searcheric.org/scripts/ewiz/amain5.asp
Off-Campus
Access
Education:
A SAGE Full-Text Collection
Includes the full text of 26 peer-reviewed journals published by SAGE and
participating societies distinguished by up to 40 years of backfiles, and
encompasses over 8,000 articles. It covers such subject areas as: Adult
and Continuing Education, Educational Administration, Educational Policy,
Elementary and Primary Education, High School and Secondary Education, Higher
Education, International Education, Leadership, Measurement and Testing,
Multicultural Education and Diversity, Professional Development, Teaching and
Instruction, Teaching Methods.
Off-Campus
Access
WilsonWeb
Includes access
to the "Education Index" (formerly in Firstsearch). Wilson OmniFile Full Text, Mega Edition is a
multi-disciplinary database providing the complete content - indexing,
abstracts, and full text - from six of Wilson's full-text databases: Education
Full Text, General Science Full Text, Humanities Full Text, Readers' Guide
Full Text, Social Sciences Full Text, and Wilson Business Full Text.
Off-Campus
Access
EBSCO - Academic
Search Premier 
The world’s largest academic multi-disciplinary database, Academic Search
Premier provides full text for nearly 4,600 scholarly publications, including
full text for more than 3,500 peer-reviewed journals. Coverage spans virtually
every area of academic study and offers information dating as far back as 1975.
Off-Campus
Access
EBSCO - MasterFILE
Premier
MasterFILE Premier, designed
specifically for public libraries, provides full text for more than 2,000
general periodicals covering a broad range of disciplines including general
reference, business, education, health, general science, multi-cultural issues
and much more.
Off-Campus
Access
PsycINFO
- CSA
1872 - present, updated monthly.
Covers all areas of psychology, including experimental and
developmental, communications, social processes and issues, personality,
physical and psychological disorders, professional issues, applied psychology,
educational psychology, behavioral literature in such related fields as law,
business and medicine. Provides bibliographic citations and abstracts to
articles from more than 1300 international journals in psychology and related
fields.
Off-Campus
Access
JSTOR Full
Text Journals
JSTOR provides unique access to fulltext backfiles for more than 120 "core"
scholarly journals in anthropology, ecology, economics, education, general
science, history, literature, mathematics, political science, and philosophy.
JSTOR's agreement with publishers provides a "moving wall" for access and does
not allow access to fulltext for the most recent 2-5 years of articles.
Off-Campus
Access
ScienceDirect
Don't
let the name fool you, it contains several journals that deal with educational
issues. Primarily full-text. Titles include Computers in Education;
Economics of Education Review; Teaching & Teacher Education; Cognition;
Journal of Memory and Language; Journal of Educational Psychology; Contemporary
Educational Psychology; Early Childhood Research Quarterly; Brain and Language;
Lingua; Learning & Instruction; Assessing Writing; Journal of Second
Language Writing; Computers & Composition; Child Abuse & Neglect;
Children and Youth Services Review; Higher Education Policy; Journal of School
Psychology; Psychology of Sports and Exercise; Aggression and Violent Behavior;
Developmental Review; and more.
Off-Campus
Access
Professional
Collection
- Gale
Part of the Gale/IAC databases suite, the Professional Collection is a
custom selection of more than 300 full-text journals for educators that is
updated daily and provides 24-hour access from school or home. It offers
balanced coverage for any professional educator in the following areas: arts and
humanities; child and adolescent psychology and development; drug and alcohol
abuse; health/nutrition/fitness; learning disabilities; literature; school law;
science and technology; social sciences; and sports/athletic training.
Off-Campus
Access
For a complete alphabetical listing of all MSUM Library databases
-- go to: http://www.mnstate.edu/library/databases.htm
Try MSUM's new "A
to Z Online Serials Directory" to see if a journal is accessible in full-text from one
of our databases. You can often connect directly to a full-text article.
Off-Campus
Access
Here's
an example from A to Z:
Books Owned by the MSUM Library:
Selected Reference
Sources for Education:
Encyclopedia
of American Education. 2001. REF. LB17.U54 2001
Education
Statistics of the United States. REF. LB2846.E39 2003
Encyclopedia
of Special Education.
1987. REF LC4007 .E53 2000
Encyclopedia
of Educational Research.
1992. REF LB 15 .E48 1992
International
Encyclopedia of Education.
2nd ed. REF LB 15 .I569 1994
Philosophy
of Education: An Encyclopedia.
REF LB 17 .P485 1996
Oryx Guide to Distance Learning. 2nd ed. REF
LC 5805 .B87 1997
The
NEA Almanac of Higher Education
REF
LB 2310
.N28
The
Almanac of American Education -- 2004 REF. LA217.2.A45
Atlas
of American Higher Education. REF
LA 227.3 .F6 1993
The effects of state public K-12
education expenditures on income distribution. REF. LC66.B445
2004
Encyclopedia
of Distributed Learning REF LC 5211 E52 2004
Minnesota
School Finance: A Guide for Legislators. REF. LB2826.M6S77 2004 Also
available online at: http://www.house.leg.state.mn.us/hrd/pubs/mnschfin.pdf
Other
Resources
of Interest:
The Art of Case Study Research.
Robert E. Stake.
LB 1028. S73 1995
Problem-Based Methodology: Research for the Improvement
of Practice. Viviane Robinson. LB
1028.24 .R63 1993
Research in Educational Settings.
Geoffrey Maruyama;
Stanley Deno. LB 1028.25 .U6 M37 1992
Special Education Desk Reference. 1997. LC3981 .E45
1997
Performance
assessment and standards-based curricula : the achievement cycle. Alan
Glatthorn. 1998. LB2806.15.G5875 1998
Leadership
for learning : how to help teachers succeed. Carl Glickman. 2002.
LB2806.4.G45 2002
Succeeding
with standards : linking curriculum, assessment, and action planning.
Judy F. Carr and Douglas E. Harris. 2001. LB3060.83.C37 2001
Who
killed Shakespeare? : what's happened to English since the radical sixties.
Patrick Brantlinger. PR 51.U5B73 2001
Strategic
thinking [videorecording] : reading and responding, grades 4-8 / Stephanie
Harvey, Anne Goudvis. TCU Film Library -- 067340
067350 067360 067370
A
child becomes a reader : kindergarten through grade 3 / authors, Bonnie B.
Armbruster, Fran Lehr, Jean Osborn. US Government Document: U.S.
DOCS. Y 3.L 71:2 C 43/KINDER./2003
Statistics
(both books & Internet sources):
The Condition of Education. 1970-present. REF
L112 .N377a
Educational
Research, Methodology, and Measurement: An International Handbook (J.
P. Keeves) LB 1028 .E3184 1997
Mini-Digest of Education Statistics. U.S. DOCS. ED1.326:yr./MINI
Educational Statistics of the United States. REF. LA201 .E38
Statistical Abstract of the United States.
REF HA202 .A4 Online version available at:
http://www.census.gov/compendia/statab/
National
Center for Educational Statistics (NCES)
Includes Publications, a link to The Condition of Education, 1998, Survey Research, Data Products
(data sets) and valuable information about dealing educational data.
Education Census (U.S. Census Bureau)
Includes data relating to Educational Attainment; Field of
Training; and School Enrollment.
Interlibrary Loan:
When you find a book or article within the
MnPALS system,
just click “ILL Request" and log into the system (if you have not
already done so). If a book or other material is not
found within MnPALS, try the link to
Submit
ILL request for a book or article at another library. For
assistance, ask a Reference Librarian.
Selected
Internet Resources:
Carol Sibley's Curriculum Materials
Center web site, including subject-specific web sites, sites for locating lesson plans, information on educational standards, and more.
Go to the “Evaluating
WWW Resources” web site for information on
evaluating web resources.
For information on
citing resources, see the Library's web page for Instructional
and Reference Handouts (http://www.mnstate.edu/library/instructional
reference handouts.htm)
web site. May also see the APA
web site regarding citations. (http://www.apastyle.org/elecref.html)
Also see:
Education Week
Weekly-updated
site with a stated primary mission to "help raise the level of awareness and understanding among professionals and
the public of important issues in American education." Covers local, state,
and national news and issues from preschool through the 12th grade.
General Education Resources
from the CMC
U.S. Department of Education
Minnesota
Department of Education (formerly Dept. of Children, Families, and Learning)
National Education Association
North
Dakota Department of Public Instruction
U.S. Dept. of
Education Institution of Education Sciences
UNESCO
Education Site
Originally created by S. Voeller. Updated
B. Goodman/S.
Voeller
07/11/2006
goodmanb@mnstate.edu
or voeller@mnstate.edu
This web site available at:
http://www.mnstate.edu/library/instruct/edresearch.htm