Barnard Library Guide to Resources in Education

Barnard College Library Research Guide
BC2032: Contemporary Issues in Education
Professors Maria Rivera and Roberta Mitchell

Islamic School in Seattle, 1982
American Memory, http://memory.loc.gov

This guide is intended as a starting point in your research; the databases and reference tools listed here are a selective list. Always remember that you can ask for assistance at the Barnard Library Reference Desk at any point in your research, and you can always request a consultation.

TITLE	BARNARD REFERENCE CALL NUMBER
African American Education: a Reference Handbook	LC2741 .J33 2001
Education and Sociology: an Encyclopedia	LC189.95 .E38
Encyclopedia of American Education	LB17 .U54 2001
Encyclopedia of Bilingualism and Bilingual Education	LC3707 .E53 1998
Encyclopedia of Education	LB15 .E47 2003
Encyclopedia of Educational Research	LB15 .E48 1992
Historical Dictionary of School Segregation and Desegregation: the American Experience	LC212.52 .R34 1998
Historical Dictionary of Women's Education in the United States	LC1752 .H57 1998

Searching CLIO
CLIO (Columbia Libraries Information Online) is the online catalog for materials added to the Columbia University Libraries since 1981.

for a keyword search, you must use AND, OR or NOT between the terms, or quotes for a phrase
to find variant endings in a Keyword search, use ?
you can limit to books in the Barnard library using the Pre-Select Limits or Post Limits options

Searching EDUCAT
Those with Columbia ID have access to the library of Teachers’ College. The Catalog, EDUCAT, is on the Catalogs list on CU LibraryWeb

unlike a Keyword search in CLIO, in EDUCAT it does not search the whole record - it only searches the title, author, subject, and contents fields
to search for a phrase, use quotes; if entered without quotes it will be changed to a Boolean search with AND between the terms
to find variant endings in a Word search, use *
having found a useful call number in CLIO, you can go and browse the same place in the stacks at Teachers College Library

USING DATABASES TO FIND ARTICLES

Access these databases from the Databases (Reference Works & Indexes) list on LibraryWeb
Using an database is a two-step process; first, find citations, and second, click on "e-link" to find the full text online or do a Journal Title search in CLIO to find out which library has the print version

Education Full Text
Full text of articles from hundreds of journals in the field of education. Coverage includes 79 journals (37 with full text) not covered by ERIC.

ERIC
The Educational Resources Information Center is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education and contains over one million citations covering research documents, journal articles, technical reports, program descriptions and evaluations, and curricular materials, dating from 1966 to the present. The link on the Columbia databases list is to the SilverPlatter interface, but the Ovid interface has better features; to access it, go into PsycINFO and select ERIC instead of PsycINFO (or search ERIC and PsycINFO simultaneously).

Ingenta
Offers a single point of access to over 900,000 full-text articles published in the last 5 years, mainly by UK publishers.

JSTOR
An archive of full-text articles from more than 600 scholarly journals on anthropology, economics, education, finance, history, philosophy, political science, population studies, sociology, statistics, etc., from each journal’s first issue up to 2 to 6 years ago.

Lexis-Nexis Academic
Full-text coverage of general news, medical, legal, business, governmental and reference topics. Coverage varies by source; generally begins in mid-1980s.

PAIS International (Public Affairs Information Service database)
Citations and abstracts for articles, books, conference proceedings, government documents, book chapters, and statistical directories about public affairs, 1972 to the present.

Project Muse
Full-text articles from more than 100 scholarly journals published by university presses in the humanities and social sciences.

ProQuest Direct
Full-text articles and abstracts from newspapers and periodicals in many disciplines, from 1988 to the present. For scholarly journals, click on "Databases selected" at top, clear all databases and select Research Library, click on "Continue" at top, and select Advanced Search. Also contains full-text articles from the Chicago Tribune (from 1890), LA Times (from 1881), New York Times (from 1851), Wall Street Journal (from 1889), and Washington Post (from 1877).

PsycARTICLES
Full-text of 42 journals published by the American Psychological Association.

PsycINFO
Citations and abstracts of journal articles, book chapters, books, dissertations, and technical reports, in the field of psychology and the psychological aspects of related disciplines, such as medicine, psychiatry, sociology, education, physiology, linguistics, anthropology, business, and law, 1887 to the present.

Social Sciences Citation Index
Cited references, bibliographic information, and abstracts, with some links to full-text articles, 1973 to the present. Useful for tracing which authors cited a given article or book because all references cited by each article are listed in the database

Social Sciences Full Text
Abstracts for journal articles on anthropology, business, community health, economics, foreign affairs, geography, international relations, law and criminology, medical care, political science, politics, psychiatry, psychology, public welfare, social work, and sociology, 1983 to the present.

Women's Studies International
Citations for articles on women's studies, gender studies, employment, family planning, feminism, feminist theory & history, etc., 1972 to the present.

WorldCat
A composite online catalog of the collections of the 24,000 member libraries of the OCLC consortium, comprising more than 36 million records for books, serials, manuscript collections, audiovisual materials, computer files, and other media. It is often the quickest way to find out where a book or journal is located, if it is not in CLIO or EDUCAT.

USEFUL WEB SITES

Teachers College website has information about faculty, hot topics and research currently underway, etc.

The Columbia Guides page, available on LibraryWeb, includes research guides on African-American Studies, American History, New York City Government Documents, Psychology, U.S. Government Documents: the Legislative Process and the Regulatory Process, and Women's Studies.

Evaluation Criteria for Websites: The Good, The Bad & The Ugly: or, Why It's a Good Idea to Evaluate Web Sources

EndNote bibliographic software allows you to import and store on your own computer the citations you find in library catalogs and databases. EndNote then enables you to put the citations in papers and bibliographies in any citation style you choose. It is available for downloading, free of charge, to all current Barnard and Columbia students, from the AcIS software server at http://www.columbia.edu/acis/software/endnote. There is a short guide to getting started with EndNote at http://www.barnard.edu/library/endnote.htm.