1. EDS 4090
R ESEARCH
John H. Evans Library & Learning Commons
S EMINAR
E VANS L IBRARY
R ESOURCES
U PDATE
S EPTEMBER
29, 2011

2. AGENDA
Agenda and Introduction 3
Research Guides 5
Finding Books 6
Finding Articles 7
APA Style Manual 8
Research Assistance 9
Wrap-Up 10
Q&A 11
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3. INTRODUCTION
Evans Library Home Page – lib.fit.edu
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4. RESEARCH GUIDES
Where do I begin?
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5. RESEARCH GUIDES
Here is the summary of research guides related to Education
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6. EDS 4090 Research Guide
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7. How do I search for books?
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8. RESEARCH GUIDE –ERIC
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ERIC

9. ERIC –Homepage
Let’s use the
Advanced Search
option
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10. ERIC –Advanced Search page
Let’s use the search terms
middle school students AND
Higher order thinking
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11. Let’s do a sample search for Educations Documents (ED) and Educational Journals (EJ) in
ERIC
ERIC
Placing quotation
marks around
search terms
keeps it as a
phrase
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12. ERIC
Results listing
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13. ERIC
Result – Example of full text ERIC Document (ED)
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14. ERIC RESULTS PAGE
Result – Bibliographic record of ED with pdf
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15. ERIC
Result –Example of full text ERIC journal article (EJ)
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16. ERIC RESULTS PAGE
Result – Bibliographic record of EJ with pdf
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17. Result #5 – Is this available in full text through the Evans Library databases? Choose find
USING ERIC – ON-CAMPUS ACCESS TO FINDING FULL TEXT
in a library
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18. USING ERIC – ON-CAMPUS ACCESS TO FINDING FULL TEXT
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Then, choose continue

19. USING ERIC – ON-CAMPUS ACCESS TO FINDING FULL TEXT
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Select the 360 Link to Full Text!

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It’s not available – now what do I do? Request an Interlibrary Loan!
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21. Result #6 – Is this available in full text? Here’s how you can find out if we have this article
ARTICLE
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full text if accessing ERIC from off-campus
Copy the Article Title
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22. Then, go to the Library website, and paste the article title in Summon. Then, click on
ARTICLE
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“Search Library”.
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23. Here’s your citation of the article. Click on the article title to see if we have this available
ARTICLE
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in full text.
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24. ARTICLE
USING ERIC – OFF CAMPUS ACCESS TO FULL TEXT OF AN
It’s not available – now what do I do? Request an Interlibrary Loan!
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25. ERIC
Want to keep track of your references?
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26. ERIC
Check the added icon next to the result you wish to export to the clipboard
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27. ERIC – EXPORTING REFERENECES TO REFWORKS
Then, choose the link to items in My Clipboard
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28. ERIC – EXPORTING REFERENECES TO REFWORKS
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Click the Export citations button

29. Choose the Citation Manager option and then click on download. File will be saved in ris
ERIC – EXPORTING REFERENECES TO REFWORKS
format.
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30. ERIC – EXPORTING REFERENECES TO REFWORKS
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Save file and then choose OK

31. ERIC – EXPORTING REFERENECES TO REFWORKS
Then log in to your Ref Works account from the library web site lib.fit.edu
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32. ERIC – EXPORTING REFERENECES TO REFWORKS
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Let’s log in!

33. Now, let’s import our two ERIC records – choose References and then Import
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34. Select Data Source and Database as noted and then browse your computer for the ris file
ERIC – EXPORTING REFERENECES TO REFWORKS
you saved. Then, choose the Import button.
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35. ERIC – EXPORTING REFERENECES TO REFWORKS
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Choose View Last Imported Folder

36. ERIC – EXPORTING REFERENECES TO REFWORKS
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There they are!

37. REFWORKS
More information on RefWorks and APA
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38. Need more help?
Kathy Turner
Information Advocate,
Education & Interdisciplinary Studies
kturner@fit.edu
(321) 674-8839
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