406: Research and Analysis in Teaching and Learning I (Senese)

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• NUcat (Online Catalog)
  The catalog identifies books that the library has, as well as journal titles, microfilm, videos, and other catalogued material. NUcat will also tell you whether material is in the main library or in another Northwestern University library.
• WorldCat
• Catalogs from Other Libraries

To obtain materials from other libraries contact the Interlibrary Loan Department.

Find Articles
Indexes and databases track down articles in journals. Some indexes, particularly the general ones, include the full text of the article. You can find the indexes by going to the library's home page and selecting "Electronic Resources." Type in the name of the index that you need from the "Quick Search" menu.


If the article citations you find in indexes to do not include full text, click on Find it @ NU which searches across many other indexing databases and sources of full text articles to find electronic full text of the article, if it exists, in the NU Library electronic environment. Find it @ NU will also lead to NUcat, the online catalog, if only a paper copy exists for the journal or periodical. If an item is not found in electronic or paper copy, a link to Interlibrary Loan will be given.

You can also locate the full article by directly searching on the journal title in NUcat. You can then check to see whether the library owns the journal or periodical and if so, what issues/dates are owned and in what format (hard copy, electronic, microtext).

• Academic OneFile
  
• Academic Search Premier
  Selected full text and abstracts of articles in journals across a variety of disciplines.
• Dissertations and Theses
  
• Web of Science (citation indexes)
  

• Education Abstracts
  
• ERIC (Educational Resources Information Center)
• Higher Education Abstracts (in Reference Room)
  371.422 C697a (Library has vol 20 [1984]–present)
  

• International Bibliography of the Social Sciences
  Citations to international literature in the social sciences.
• PAIS International
  Citations in public policy, social policy and the social sciences.
• PsycINFO
  Citations in psychology and related fields.
  
• Sociological Abstracts
  Citations and abstracts of articles in sociology journals and related fields.
  

Find other indexes to articles by subject

• Chronicle of Higher Education
• Curriculum Collection (5th floor, North Tower)
• Education Research Guide from the Library
• ED.gov
• ETS Research Site
• Recommended library resources for Education

Journal Archives

• JSTOR
  Digitized, full-text versions of core scholarly journals
• Periodicals Index and Archive Online
  Millions of article citations published in the arts, humanities and social sciences, across more than 300 years.
• Project Muse
  

Reference and Statistical Resources

• Digest of Education Statistics
• Encyclopedia of Education
  370.3 E561 2003 (8 vols) and online
• Encyclopedia of education and human development
  370.3 E557 (3 vols)
• Handbook of research on teaching
  L 370.72 H236
• Higher education in the United States: an encyclopedia
  378.7303 H638 (2 vols)
• National Center for Education Statistics
• Statistical Resources on the Web: Education
  

• APA Style Guide
• MLA Style Guide
  

• store references in one place
• keep reading notes linked to sources (no more index cards!)
• download citations directly from databases
• automatically format bibliographies and citations in MLA, APA, Chicago Manual of Style, or over 1000 other styles.
  
  EndNote Support Page

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Reference help
Northwestern University Library's Main Reference Department
Education Liaison, Qunying Li, 847-491-3953

Work one-on-one with a librarian
Research Consultations

Accessing electronic articles and books from off campus
Start with the instructions at www.library.northwestern.edu/help/proxy/

Denise M Shorey
Reference Department
Email: d-shorey@northwestern.edu
Office phone: 847.491.2174
Reference desk phone: 847.491.7656