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EDOL Orientation

Searching with Databases with Keywords

A helpful way to get started with research on your topic is to use keywords in a database search. This video provides an excellent introduction to Searching with Keywords.

Advanced Searching in EBSCO Databases

Learn about how to do advanced searching in the EBSCO subject databases by accessing the subject databases in the EDOL 911 and 912 Research Guide, combining subject databases, and using AND and OR to create powerful searches. Databases included in this video include: Business Source Complete, Education Source, ERIC, Social Sciences Full Text and SocINDEX with Full Text.

Advanced Searching in Google Scholar

When you access Google Scholar from a Lehman site (e.g. Library website, Research Guide) you'll have links to resources in the Lehman Subject Databases. This will give you many Lehman resources in one search. Watch this video for more information on ways to use Google Scholar to support your research.

Sage Research Methods

The Sage Research Methods database is filled with books, articles, videos, and other media about qualitative and quantitative research methods. Watch this video to learn how to access these resources from the database.

Finding Journals in OneSearch

Sometimes you'll want to search directly for an eJournal. You may have a citation for an article that you wish to find, or you may wish to browse through the latest issues in a journal, or you may wish to search for articles within a journal. The eJournal search is a great way to find where you can access a specific journal. This video shows you how to access the eJournal search and how to conduct a search.

Creating Alerts in EBSCO and Google Scholar

Many of the databases and discovery tools have ways for researchers to get alerts about new articles on your research topic. This video highlights the search alert function in the EBSCO databases (e.g. Education Source, Business Source Complete, SocINDEX with Full Text) and in Google Scholar.

Finding Dissertations

This video provides a quick way for you to find dissertations on your research topic.

Citation Chaining

The Citation Chaining video offers two ways to follow the scholarly conversation on a topic, one moving backward from a citation to follow the references in the article's bibliography and the other, moving forward from a citation to follow those who have cited that article. This video shows you how to do both methods with Lehman resources.

Journal Citation Reports

This video shows you how to find which journals are highly ranked in a discipline and how to discover metrics about specific journals in the Journal Citation Reports database.