What is Research?

Field

Creating and conducting a study or experiment.

Library

Literature review.

Peer reviewed journal articles.

Grey literature.

Researched books.

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RESEARCH

EDUCATION

IN

PROFESSOR SARAH COHN

HEAD OF REFERENCE, EDUCATION LIBRARIAN

Fall 2023

AGENDA

MANAGING YOUR RESEARCH

GETTING HELP

ACCESSING ARTICLES

SEARCH TERMS

SEARCH STRATEGIES

LIBRARY DATABASES

CITATION SEARCHING

TODAY'S

Getting Help

Professor Sarah Cohn

Head of Reference, Education Librarian

scohn@ccny.cuny.edu

ccny.libcal.com/appointments/scohn

Reference Desk: Cohen Library

Monday-Thursday 10am-7pm

Friday 10am-2pm

MANAGERS

CITATION

Save articles, books, websites & more in one place.

Create in-text citations and works cited page in the format of your choice.

ZOTERO
- Free & open source
REFWORKS
- Subscription through CCNY
ENDNOTE
- Subscription through CCNY

ARTICLES

ACCESSING

Finding full text (FT)

Available in another database via provided link.

Not available in another database. Request via ILL.

Request articles the library does not have full text access to with

INTERLIBRARY LOAN

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SERVICES

INTERLIBRARY LOAN

TERMS

SEARCH

what is your main topic?

what are the specifics?

The more ways you have to describe your ideas, the wider net you can cast in your searching.

what are different ways to describe your ideas?

How do 1:1 reading conferences in which students’ individualized reading goals are prioritized improve reading abilities among my fourth grade students?

reading conferences

reading skills

reading goals

reading strategies

data on reading skills improvement

STRATEGIES

SEARCH

use AND to connect terms

students AND elementary AND active learning AND math

combining different terms = different results

special education AND elementary AND active learning AND math

use OR to connect synonyms

elementary OR primary AND students AND active learning AND math

use "..." for phrases or names

"active learning", "bell hooks"

use database filters to narrow your search

use the database thesaurus for targeted searches

you may need to broaden your search

use cited references & times cited links

Link to the article's bibliography. Will show you older research.

Link to a list of articles that have cited this one. Will show you newer research.

DATABASES

LIBRARY

Education Source

ERIC

Educators Reference Complete

SocIndex

OneSearch

Taylor & Francis Academic OneFile

JSTOR

Subject Specific

Multi-Disciplinary

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OneSearch box

Databases link

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Meta-search
- Searches multiple databases at once
Catalog of print & ebooks
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but not all of them!