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| Find Periodical Articles |
Academic Search Premier provides indexing for just over 8,000 periodicals, and full text articles for over half of those titles.
- From the Cabrillo
College Library homepage, click on Full Text Articles
- Under General,
click to go to Academic Search Premier
- On the next
screen, click to switch to Advanced search mode
With the Advanced search screen, you can most efficiently search more than one term at a time.
- Click on the
little box next to the word Full text to limit your
search to fulltext articles in the database
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- Click in the little box next to Scholarly (Peer Reviewed) Journals to limit your search to scholarly articles:
6. Type in your
search terms and hit 
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The asterisk after classroom* means that the search will be for the word classroom or its plural.
Once you have a results list, click on an article title to get full information about it. Note the following:
Use Academic Search Premier to identify at least one periodical article on your topic. From the results list, click on the article title to get to the screen with more information.
Article title__________________________________________________
Periodical title (look where the screen says Source)
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Date of periodical_______________
| Find ERIC Documents |
ERIC is the Educational Resource Information Center. Since 1966, it has collected and disseminated information about teaching, learning, and all matters associated with education. Detailed abstracts help you judge the relevance of the materials to your research needs.
Some of the materials are documents, such as papers, studies, speeches -- these have ERIC Document numbers (numbers that begin with ED). Some of the materials are educational periodical articles. These have EJ numbers.
ERIC is a complex database, so we recommend you click on Advanced Search to use the Advanced Search mode. Here's a sample search:
Here we are asking
the database to search for the phrase "high school"
or its plural AND the term multicultural. The
quotation marks keep words in phrases together. We limited the search to materials available free in full text, published between 2001 and 2008.
Click to go to ERIC. Devise
a search of your own to look for educational resources on your topic.
Make notes here about what you find:
Title____________________________________________
Year published___________________
ED or EJ#____________________________
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Title____________________________________________
Year published___________________
ED or EJ#____________________________
The ERIC Thesaurus provides an excellent listing of specialized terms and concepts used in the database. Click on the ERIC Thesaurus tab, and do any of the the following:
- Browse by categories listed at bottom of screen
- Enter a concept in the search box, to find suggested thesaurus terms
- Click on any thesaurus term, to view broader, narrower, and related terms
- Use the thesaurus terms as part of your search (use quotation marks around the phrases)
| Find Books in the Library |
From the Cabrillo College Library homepage click on Library Catalog. Begin your search using whatever terms you have in mind, then look at your results to identify other terms to use, as well as good subject headings. Here are examples of some relevant subject headings:
- MULTICULTURAL EDUCATION
- CRITICAL PEDAGOGY
- EDUCATIONAL CHANGE
- EDUCATION, BILINGUAL
- CHILDREN OF IMMIGRANTS -- EDUCATION
Books are mostly found in the main stacks. You'll also occasionally run across books shelved in Reference (you use those in the library).
Increasingly, you'll also find eBooks, electronic versions of printed books. You can read the library's eBooks from any computer connected to the Internet. When you are on campus using the online catalog, you just click through to read them. If you're off campus, the easiest way to access eBooks is the following:
- From the Library home page, click on Full Text Articles
- Under General, click on NetLibrary E-Books
Look up a book (or books) on your topic and take notes about what you find:
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| Find Videos etc. |
Multimedia files of various sorts -- videos and audio files -- are the fastest growing part of the Web. You probably know about YouTube and GoogleVideos. But, better quality videos are available at
- Blinkx.com Try searching using the word bicultural or bilingual.
- PodcastAlley gives you access to thousands of podcasts. Have an iPod? You can download these for your iPod. (In the classroom, you need a Podcast aggregator, and these stations don't have it.)
- MediaScrape for TV programs from around the world. Amazing!
Seeing outselves: Google Earth is software -- it's on all the computers in the classroom. But, now, Microsoft is answering back with Live Search Maps. Click on Aerial and type in an address. This is photography!
And now there's maps.google.com
| Looking for Web Sites on Your Own |
The Internet is an open publishing environment -- anyone can publish a Web page. It is important to ask yourself questions like:
- Does this have useful information on my topic?
- Who wrote this, and why should I believe them?
- Is the information accurate and factual? Can I confirm what is being said?
- Is the source objective, or are they trying to sell me something or persuade me?
- Is the information up to date?
It's one thing for you to have a reference to a URL from your textbook or instructor. It's quite another thing for you to venture out to find a good Web site on your own. Evaluation is important!
2. Examine the domain name carefully. Usually, domain names in the U.S. that end in .com are commercial, those that end in .gov are governmental, .edu is for educational institutions, and .org is for nonprofits and other organizations.
3. Frequently (but not always), a tilde (the symbol ~) prior to a file name indicates that it is someone's personal Web page. Some places on the Web are in the business of hosting personal Web pages. When a domain name has geocities, angelfire, tripod, or aol in it, the Web page is probably a personal one.
4. If a site has a long file name, try taking off the last part of the URL to see the Web page or site to which it is hooked.
Smart Searching. Use quotation marks to hold words in phrases together, as illustrated here:
Google searches several of its databases simultaneously for you. The databases you may want to search on your own at Google are the Books database, and Scholar, which is Google's database of periodical articles. Not everything is available full text (in fact, very little in Scholar is), but what a treasure! You can just switch over to the other databases using the drop down menu:
Here I am doing a search in Googles Books database for "two way immersion." I limited my search to the books I can read cover to cover (full view):
Search for Web sites on your topic. Since you are using words for searching, and will become knowledgeable about which words retrieve appropriate resources, you can use the boxes below to record your keywords and their relationships as you do your searching:
| Concept 1 | Concept 2 | Concept 3 |
Make notes below about 2 quality Web sites you find.
1. URL_________________________________________________________
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2. URL_________________________________________________________
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T. N. Smalley, last rev. 2/09