Section Navigation

• 1 Introduction to the Before the Term Section
• 2 Faculty Development Support
• 3 Getting a Class List Online
• 4 Designing Instruction
  • 4.1 Writing Learning Objectives
    • 4.1.1 School of Business and Technology
    • 4.1.2 All Other Schools
  • 4.2 Writing Your Syllabus
  • 4.3 Fair Use
  • 4.4 Preventing Plagiarism
• 5 Supporting Research for Your Students and Yourself
  • 5.1 Introduction to Library Resources and Services
  • 5.2 Library Catalog
  • 5.3 Accessing Other Library Catalogs
  • 5.4 Using Library Databases to Find Articles and Other Information
    • 5.4.1 Searching for Articles in a Database
    • 5.4.2 Obtaining Full-Text Articles
  • 5.5 Research Guides
  • 5.6 Websites / Search Engines
• 6 Getting Materials from the Library
  • 6.1 Document Delivery
  • 6.2 Reserving Videos
• 7 Other Faculty Library Services
  • 7.1 Electronic Reserves
• 8 Review of Before the Term Section

Searching for Articles in a Database

Let's say, for example, that you want to find articles dealing with education.

• From the Library website click the Articles Databases link.
• From the Articles Databases page you would click the Education link located under Social Sciences to the right.
• A good place to start looking for educational articles would be the ERIC (Educational Resource Information Center) database, so click the ERIC link at the top of the list.
• Once you have entered your ID you will be taken to the ERIC database and you can begin searching.
• You can do a keyword search by inserting keywords or phrases into the search boxes.
  
• Use the results to improve your search. Once you have entered a key word and clicked "Search," a list of possible articles will appear. Click on any one of the title links and you will see subject headings (or descriptors) assigned by the database.
  
  
  You can use these subject headings in additional searches to find more relevant articles.

More on Searching
The following tutorials are linked from the "Research Guides" section of the Library website.

• Searching a Database: Introduction
• Basic Searching
• Focusing Your Results with Vocabulary Lists introduces how to find and use the database's subject headings to focus your search
• Advanced Searching provides information on how, and why, to search using appropriate fields.

You, and your students, may also contact the Reference Desk for additional help in selecting a database or constructing a search.  Call 1-800-985-4279