Disciplinary Thinking – Textual Practices

Library resources: teaching and learning

Adapted from a presentation by Ruth Russell - ruth.russell@ucl.ac.uk

NOTE: References to UCL have been replaced by place-holder text, in square brackets and coloured red, e.g. [institution name]. You can either replace the placeholder with text relating to your institution or delete it and the surrounding text.

Presentation overview•P

resentation covers• Book collections• Access to electronic resources• Print & Electronic Journals• Databases for finding journal articles

• British Education Index • Web of Science• Other databases

Book collections

[This slide gives the locations of relevant collections of books, in the institutional library and other libraries close by].

Access to e-resources

•Most electronic resources can be accessed on or off campus

•The best route to these is via the library website

•You will need your userid to log in

•For further information go to [URL]

Journals

•Most education journals available in electronic format

•Search the Library catalogue: [URL] • May be able to link to the full text journal

•E-journals list is at [URL]• Can filter the list to look at journals in particular subject collections

•Directory of Open Access Journals: • http://www.doaj.org/• All papers in these journals freely accessible

Discovering and rating journals•J

ournal Citation Reports (JCR) is a database which allows you to view lists of journals in various disciplines

•The database also allows you to rate these journals according to various criteria

•Task: use JCR to find out which journal in the Education & Educational Research subject category is the highest rated according to impact factor

Search Strategy•T

hink about the terms you use• Are there alternative phrases?• Use truncation and wildcard symbols (*, ?)

•Link search terms:

AND, NOT to narrow

OR to broaden•U

se “quotation marks” to search for phrases•S

earch for both UK and US spelling •U

se brackets to organise your search e.g.:“virtual learning” AND (“further education” OR “higher education”)

Teaching Learning

Only finds articles containing both teaching and learning

Finds articles containing either teaching or learning

Finds articles which do contain the term teaching but do not also contain the term learning

Search strategy illustrated

Example SearchA

ddressing student diversity in e-learning delivery for higher education

•Possible key concepts (remember synonyms, alternative words)• Diversity or cultural difference*AND• E-learning or online learning or virtual learning AND• Higher education or university

Bibliographic databases•B

ibliographic databases index journal articles•A

bstracts often included•A

llow searching content in a range of journals•O

nly high quality scholarly writing is included•O

ption to download search results e.g. to reference management software

•There may be links to full-text material if your institution subscribes to the electronic version, with options to locate print material if electronic is not available

Database Demonstrations

•[Always access via the library databases page + URL]

•British Education Index• Provides details about the contents of various

literature sources including journals, reports and conference material

• Can be searched alongside other education databases (ERIC and Australian Education Index)

Searching ERIC

Video demonstration From University of Toronto. Does not assume you are familiar with database searches: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_IrWC96tVi4

NOTE: It is addressed to University of Toronto students and shows the link to ERIC on the institutional website.

Task

To apply your database searching skills:

-Use either British Education Index OR Web of Science to start searching for articles on a topic of your choice.

-Email yourself a list of the references you find

Other databases for education

•SCOPUS large multidisciplinary database

•IBSS an index of literature in the social sciences and related disciplines

•Nexis UK (formerly Lexis Nexis Executive) full text database of news articles

•PsychINFO Index of literature in psychology and psychological aspects of related disciplines including material on educational psychology.

Material not held in the institution

• [link] can be used to check journal holdings at [your institution] and other universities

• You can search across library catalogues with COPAC or ULS

• Books and journal articles can be requested via inter-library loan: [Give details or further information].

Help

•[Insert information relevant to the institution, e.g.

•Enquiry Desks

•Subject librarian

•More tips on searching bibliographic databases

•Useful links]

Learning Resource MetadataField/Element Value:Title Disciplinary Thinking – Textual Practices: Library Resources

Description Slides that could be used to introduce institutional routes to education literature

Module Textual Practices

Subject HE - Education

Author Ruth Russell; Jane Hughes; Colleen McKenna: HEDERA 2012

Owner The University of Bath

Audience Educational developers in accredited programmes & courses in higher education.

Issue Date 20/04/2012

Last updated Date 28/07/2012

Version V1

PSF Mapping A5, K2, K3, V3

License Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 UK: England & Wales License.

Keywordsukoer, omac, education, higher education, discthink, disciplinary thinking, hedera, university of bath, research-teaching relationships, textual practices, teaching and learning, scholarship of teaching, information literacies

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