Inclusive Education in Developing Countries WWS
401b
Fall 2007 |
| Newspapers | Databases | Data |
| Librarians | Books | Bibliographic Management |
The
three four five things I want you to
remember from my visit to your class
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I am here to help you locate materials and help you focus your paper so that is interesting to you and do-able. There are many other librarians here, too.
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Not everything is on the Internet; you will find things using library databases that are not on the web.
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Controlled vocabulary is a great tool. Google has many wonderful features, but controlled vocabulary is not one of them. "Controlled Vocabulary" would be "Subject Headings" in the library catalog or "Descriptors" in ERIC, Education Full-text, or Sociological Abstracts.
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The e-journal finder works if you have a citation OR within many of the databases we have access to (such as Sociological Abstracts). It will help you locate the full-text of an article, if we have it in our library system.
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Advanced Google Search is great for "Search within a site" or finding files of a particular format (e.g., inurl:pdf or inurl:xls). Remember to search for phrases using quotes.
Great resources
that you probably won't find on the Internet
For full-text of newspapers, news services, radio and TV transcripts use the following databases (or check the ejournal finder):
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Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe (includes transcripts)
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U.S. and International newspapers articles more than a few weeks old (for free)
ERIC (Education Resources Information Center) (1966+). Indexing and abstracting of the field of Education with a focus on the U.S. Its detailed thesaurus is argueably its strongest feature.
Education Full-text (Indexing 1929+; Full-text 1996+). Not as comprehensive as ERIC, but the two complement each other.
Econlit (1969+). The definitive economics database. Try searching on "Analysis of Education" in Subject AND developing countries and narrow it as appropriate for your research.
Sociological Abstracts (1952+). Indexing and abstracting of the world's literature in sociology and related disciplines, both theoretical and applied. Covers 2,500 journals, conference papers, dissertations, and book reviews. Includes materials in 30 languages.
Proquest Digital Dissertations (full-text 1997+). Bet you won't find this on Google.
Proquest Research Library. Multidisciplinary "aggregator" (not comprehensive
like the Sociological databases) , includes
non-scholarly.
Ebsco Academic Search Premier. Multidisciplinary "aggregator" (not comprehensive),
includes non-scholarly.
JSTOR Scholarly but old.
Web of Knowledge , the rich man's Google Scholar (citation tracker).
Data sources ... |
SourceOECD Education at a Glance 2007 (pdf file 457 pages)
SourceOECD Education Statistics (formerly SourceOECD Education at a Glance)
Princeton University Library Catalog
Look for books in the catalog using these possible subject
headings
| Educational assistance --Developing countries. | |
| Educational assistance --Developing countries --Evaluation. | |
| Education and state.--{name of country you're interested in} | |
| World Bank --Evaluation | |
| Education and State |
or keyword search on your topic. You can then switch to "long view" and find other books with that Subject Heading
Elana Broch (ebroch@princeton.edu; I work M, T, Th from 8:30 to 3:00.)
Nancy Pressman-Levy (pressman@princeton.edu)
Joann Donatiello (jdonatie@princeton.edu)
Social Science Research Center (A floor of Firestone) has many librarians, including
- Susan White (sbwhite@princeton.edu) the Sociology Librarian
- David Hollander (dholland@princeton.edu) the Law Librarian
- John Hernadez (jjhernan@princeton.edu) the Politics Librarian
- Bobray Bordelon (bordelon@princeton.edu) the Economics and Data Librarian
Refworks (web-based for people who use multiple computers; free to you--the university has a site license)
Endnote (PC based for people who use their own computer for all their research). Available from OIT at very low cost.
With Refworks you Write 'n Cite, with in Endnote you Cite while you write in MS Word. You can embed your citations and create bibliographies easily (MLA, Chicago, APA, etc.)
