ED 690:

LOCATING INFORMATION
SPRING 2010

MORTOLA LIBRARY
PACE UNIVERSITY
Goals of Today’s Session
1. Review Pace Library catalog & Connect/NY
2. Access subscription research databases,
including ERIC, to find journal articles
 Refine your search and use additional features
 Locate the full text of an article
 Access via Interlibrary Loan (ILLIAD) if needed
1. Locate resources for APA citation style
guidelines
Pace Library Catalog / ConnectNY
 Use the Pace Library catalog to find out
what we have … and where to find it.
 Search: Keyword for materials on a topic
 Search: Subject for books about a person
 “last name, first name” i.e., Halverson, Richard

 Connect/NY
 A consortium of 14 academic libraries in NY
 Available to Pace users
Accessing Library Databases

 Library Homepage: http://www.pace.edu/library

 Go to Find Resources, Click on Databases,

or under Quick Links, click on Find an Article

 For Remote Access

 Login with your MyPace username/password
Suggested Databases

 Specialized Databases
 ERIC (Education)

 PsycInfo (Psychology)

 Other Education Databases

 Professional Development Collection

 Education Abstracts
Other Useful Databases

 General Databases
 Academic Source Premier (General academic)

 New York Times Archive (News)

 Lexis-Nexis (News)

 Encyclopedia
 Gale Virtual Reference Library
ERIC (Educational Resource Info. Center)

 Two types of results

 Journal Articles in ERIC (marked EJ)
 ERIC Documents (marked ED)
 Search Limits
 Links to selected full text
 Use to find full text retrieval options
 Use the Thesaurus
Refining your search and hints
 Use the Narrow results by … Subject links
to find suggestions for keywords
 Look at the Subject headings of relevant articles
in your results to help you rephrase your search
 Try the Thesaurus if this doesn’t work

 Use the refine search tab to limit your

search to only full text articles
How do I find the full text?
Click on
 Launches a pop-up window that will display your best
options for retrieving the article.

You may see:

 a link to a full text ERIC document

 a link to full-text in another database (when available)

 a link to holdings in the Pace Library catalog for print or

microfilm (when available)

 a link to create a request for the article via ILLIad

Interlibrary Loan
 a link to search the Web for the article
PsycINFO
 Comprehensive psychology database includes citations
to journal articles, books, book chapters, dissertations
 Limit to peer-reviewed journals
 Times cited in this database can help you determine
the quality of an article
 Cited References may give you additional relevant
materials
 Links to selected full text
 Use to find full text when not immediately
available
Help with Citation Style
 On the Library home page, under Library Services,
click on How Do I…
 link to Cite Resources?
 The Cite Resources page includes APA citation
examples
 Also: The Bedford Handbook online gives good
examples of citations in APA format

 Publication Manual of the APA

QUESTIONS?

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