LIBS 3000--Community and Diversity
Instructor: Brandon Price
Sponsored by the U.S Department of Education. The largest and most
authoritative source for citations to articles and documents on all
aspects of education.
Searching ERIC:
- Stockton Library Access Center's homepage
http://library.csustan.edu/stockton/
- Under Find Articles, click Education.
- Click on ERIC (through FirstSearch).
- Click on Subjects
(online thesaurus) to find ERIC subject headings to represent the concepts
of your search.
- You may limit your
results to journal articles or to documents. When you limit to journal
articles, also limit to Subscriptions held by my library to find
articles from journals subscribed by the University Library.
- Limit to Peer Reviewed for journal articles validated by
scholars in the field.
- Use core terms or phrases for a keyword search, not sentences.
- Separate different concepts with the word and (for
example, family history and lesson plans).
- You may display the results ranked by Date or
Relevance.
- Browse through the results and look at the descriptors
to get
ideas for other search terms.
Finding Articles:
- Click
button to see if the article is available in
full-text online.
- If you need to request an article from the Main Library in
Turlock, click on the Request
Materials from Main Library link on the Stockton Library Access
Center's homepage. Use the article request form.
- You may obtain articles from journals that we do not subscribe in
the library by clicking on Materials
Not Owned in Stockton or Turlock from the Stockton Library Access
Center's homepage.
ERIC Documents:
- Non-journal literature: curriculum materials, papers presented at
conferences, government documents, etc.
- Many of the documents from 1993-present are now available online as PDF
files.
- Click the Access ERIC Full Text link or
to retrieve the full text of the document online.
- Documents from 1966-present that are not available online may be
available on microfiche in Turlock.
- To request ED's from Turlock, click on the Request
Materials from Main Library link on the Stockton Library Access
Center's homepage. Use the book request form. List the accession number (ED plus
six digits) in place of the call number on the request form.
Searching from off campus:
- When you click on the name of the database from off-campus, enter
either your CSUStan
e-mail ID before the @ sign or the 14 digit library ID number (begins
with "209") used prior to fall semester 2008.
- You will then have the same access to ERIC as
you have in the library.
Education Full Text
- Many
full text articles from education journals from 1984-present.
- Use
the online thesaurus to check for subject headings representing the
concepts of your search.
-
Limit options include Full Text Articles and
Peer Reviewed
journals.
- When
browsing the results, check the Suggested Subjects for other search
terms.
- Use
the same steps to search as described above.
Library Catalog
- Stockton Library Access Center's homepage
http://library.csustan.edu/stockton/
- Under Find Books, click Library Catalog.
- Search for books, videos, theses, etc. owned by CSU Stanislaus Library.
- Search by keyword, subject, title, or author (last name, first).
- To request books from Turlock, click on the Request
Materials from Main Library link on the Stockton Library Access Center's
homepage. Use the book request form.
How to cite sources using APA format
Calisphere
- Primary sources, images, and themed collections to support the
California Content Standards.
Primary
Sources on the World Wide Web
Revised by Warren Jacobs, Reference Librarian, 9/08
wjacobs@csustan.edu
