How to Do Research at Paul Robeson Library: Education Guide
Welcome to the Research Help Page for the Paul Robeson Library. The purpose of this page is to guide our students, faculty, staff, and visitors to through the research process in the area of Education. In addition to links for locating print and electronic resources, this page will also guide you to links on general topics related to writing a research paper, such as Citing Sources and How to Avoid Plagiarism.
You input is valued and appreciated. If you would like to comment or make a suggestion for a resource that you would like to see linked to this site, please contact the Web Administrator at bowman@crab.rutgers.edu. Thanks!
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Finding Books (Back to Top)
List Reference Books Available at Paul Robeson Library
- America's Children: Key National Indicators of Well-being (REF HQ792.U5A44)
- Children, Young Adults, and the Law (REF KF479.A68A76)
- Kids Count Data Book (REF HQ792.U5K53)
- N.J. State Department of Education. New Jersey School District Report Card
(DOC REF LB7.N49)
- Statistical Record of Children (REF HQ767.8.S73)
- Trends in the Well-being of America's Children & Youth (REF HQ 792.U5T73)
- Vital Educational Statistics (DOC REF L178.B265)
Full Text Books Available Electronically
General Sites for Electronic Texts:
Finding Articles(Back to Top)
Types of Articles
First, you need to know what kind of articles your instructor wants you to use in your paper. There are two general types of articles: those that come from general readership magazines such as Time, or Newsweek or those that come from research journals or scholarly journals such as Educational Leadership. For complete information on how to recognize a scholarly journal, please go to Types of Periodicals on the Paul Robeson Library Web Site (http://www.libraries.rutgers.edu/instruction/typesof.html)
Using an Index
Now that you know what you are looking for you will need to use an index to find the article. Academic Search Premier (EBSCO) is a good starting place. This index is available on-line and has full-text of the articles that will display when you get your search results. Academic Search Premier has articles from both general readership magazines and scholarly journals.
Scholarly Journals
At some point, you will need to use the more specialized, scholarly indexes. A list of these indexes for Education along with descriptions can be found at the Rutgers University Libraries Index Page. Since issues and research in Education are frequently cross-disciplinary in nature, the indexes listed under General and Multidisciplinary, will be helpful as well.
The scholarly indexes may give you citations to articles as your search result. A citation is not the complete article but it gives you enough information to locate the article in our library system.
How to locate the periodical using a citation:
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Use the Journal name to search in the Catalog (IRIS)
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When you enter the search term, click on Periodical Title as your Search Type.
- The catalog will tell you if the periodical is at the same library as you, at a different Rutgers Library, not owned by Rutgers at all, or available on-line.
- Make sure that the search results match the date of the article you are trying to locate.
- If the periodical is available on-line, the catalog will display a link to use.
- If the periodical is available at a different Rutgers Library than you are at you can click on Request This Item to order it.
- If Rutgers does not own the periodical at all, you can request the article through Interlibrary Loan.
- If you get confused, contact a Reference Librarian.
Education Departments at Rutgers University
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