Search Sites
Quick Search Reference: The search links in the table below will take you directly to those web pages. Explanations about the sites and further information on search resources are listed below. (See On This Page.)
Direct Links to Search Sites
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The Search
- Find reliable sources and thoroughly examine the published research.
- Do the research hypotheses described in the articles you found add new information? Are the research questions clear?
- Study the theoretical frameworks, sampling techniques, and research methods used. Is the study just a routine application of known techniques?
- How were the findings discussed in the context of related literature?
- What are the recommendations for further research?
- Use bibliographies to further assist you in your literature searching.
On this page:
AERA's Publications Gopher Search
American Educational Research Association's Resources for Researchers Search AERA Publications (via gopher). This subset of the ERIC Current Index to Journals in Education database contains abstracts of articles appearing in the Educational Researcher, Review of Educational Research, American Educational Research Journal, Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics, and Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis.
APA's Psych Crawler
The American Psychological Association's Psych Crawler. PsychCrawler provides quick access to content in the field of psychology.
Child Development Resources
Child Development Abstracts and Bibliography. Online resource published by the University of Chicago Press for the Society for Research in Child Development.
Electronic Journal Resources
"New Jour" is a listing of new electronic journals and newsletters.
Psychology and Other Electronic Journals and Periodicals. An index of psychologically related electronic journals, conference proceedings, and other periodicals.
University of Houston. Scholarly journals distributed via the World Wide Web.
University of Southern California. An electronic journals resource guide.
University of Pennsylvania. An alphabetic list of electronic journals and newspapers.
North Carolina State. A listing of electronic texts, journals, newsletters, magazines, and collections.
ERIC
AskERIC is an internet-based education information service of the Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC).
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ERIC Database
Search ERIC Digests File
Q and A Service
ERIC Bibliographies (gopher file).
Virtual Library
ERIC Wizard is a new service which will search for data using ERIC Thesaurus terms. The ERIC Thesaurus has been developed as the list of descriptors, or controlled vocabulary, by which ERIC citations are indexed. Using thesaurus terms ensures more accurate, and fruitful search results.
Library of Congress
The Library of Congress Page has many resources inculding a search engine. Search the Library of Congress and other catalogs.
Web Search Engines
Search engines on the Web. There are many free search engines on the web including the two listed below, Alta Vista and Lycos. Usually you type one or more key words in a text box, and the search software attempts to match these words against a database that contains as many as several million Web addresses (URLs). Some search engines have more advanced search capabilities. (See below.)
Alta Vista. Alta Vista indexes the full text of more than 16,000,000 Web pages. Alta Vista has a new user-friendly search site which will help you narrow your search. At its Advance Search page, it supports Boolean searching, term as well as phrase searching (i.e., proximity searching with the NEAR operator), field searching (eg, title:steelhead; url:home.html), right-hand truncation with some restriction, and case-sensitive searching if only the first letter of a word is capitalized. You can learn more by using the "Help" section at the site.
Lycos. Lycos has indexed more than 19 million unique URLs of Web resources. It does not index the full text of a Web page, but extracts the title and a portion of a document. Lycos supports Boolean logic. Truncation is automatically done during a search, which may result in some unwanted search outcomes. Phrase search is not supported by Lycos.
Catalog Search Engines. The most famous catalog or subject search engine on the web is Yahoo. It is broken into subject trees like the subject catalog in a library. Subject trees attempt to categorize Web sites by subject categories.
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