Research Guides: SPGN 323W: More How-To Find Articles

Library Handouts for Education Students

What Can the Library Do for You?
A "cheat sheet" on library services for COE students.
Finding Full Text Articles: The Persistent Method
Sometimes electronic full text of an article may be just a few clicks away. If one way doesn’t work, there are other ways to try.

PsycINFO Classification Codes
These codes are sometimes useful when searching the PsycINFO database.
APA Databases Methodology Field Values
You can search by methodology in PsycINFO. This handout defines the methodology terms used.

Using Google Scholar

Using articles you've already found to locate additional resources

Finding Known Articles

Finding Articles using Esearch

Literature Reviews: An Overview for Graduate Students (9.5 minutes)

Using the ERIC Thesaurus at ERIC.ed.gov

If you want to search for Subject words to use in your ERIC search, open a new tab on your browser and go to the ERIC Thesaurus on the ERIC.ed.gov site. You can then copy Subject terms to the ProQuest ERIC database to create searches. The thesaurus works better on the ERIC.ed.gov site, but ProQuest ERIC has more features and more full text.
Lucky us - we can use both!