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Welcome to Education Research Complete: Finding and Searching.
Education Research Complete is a multidisciplinary database that is accessible, thorough and
draws from wide-ranging sources making ERC a great one-stop shop.
There are a number of ways you can get to ERC from the library's homepage.
Selecting "Research Databases" under the search box, brings you to an alphabetical listing
of all of the library's databases. Select the letter "E" to get to Education
Research Complete. Selecting Education Research Complete from
the alphabetical page will take you directly to the database.
Select the Advanced Search option below the search box.
Utilizing the Advanced Search will allow you more specificity with your results.
But before beginning your search, follow a few steps in order to optimally utilize the
interface. First you'll need to formulate your research
question or topic. As a hypothetical we'll try to find early
intervention instructional strategies for students with autism.
Next we'll need to identify the key phrases from our research topic.
Then we'll try to think of synonyms or other ways in which to express those key phrases.
In place of "Instructional" articles might use "teach" or "learn."
Once we've identified our search terms we'll also want to include any terms that may have
alternate endings. Do this by adding an asterisk at the end of
your terms. If you haven't already, you should watch the
Cook Help Guide titled, "Formulate the Perfect Search," in order to understand this process
more in depth. Back at the "Advanced Search" page of Education
Research Complete, we'll enter our search terms each in a separate box.
If you have more than three key phrases, go ahead and use the "Add Row" option to the
right of the search boxes. Since we only have three key phrases, we can
go ahead and check out our search results. Our search yielded 107 results, which is a
pretty good number. We can now adjust or narrow within these results.
We can also limit our results by sliding the date over on the left side bar.
The date now displayed is 2001 so we're only checking articles from the last 9-10 years.
You may be tempted, but do not click on the "Full Text" check box. I'll show you why in
just a moment. We might also want to make sure we're only
seeing "Scholarly/Peer Reviewed Journals." We can check that box in this same side bar.
Then click, "Update" at the bottom of the box.
We've narrowed our results from 107 to 89 and now know that all of the selections are
Peer Reviewed and from the last 9 years. Clicking on the "Alert/Save/Share" option
creates a Permalink that you can email to yourself or Bookmark.
This is also a good idea if you need to come back and find your citations later.
Remember when I said to avoid checking that "Full Text" box?
That's because Cook Library has an abundance of education articles and journals.
So while the Full Text may not be in ERC, there is a high likelihood that we have it
in another database. You can find out by clicking on the "Find
it" button. The "Find It" window displays where the full
text is available in Cook Library or elsewhere. Using Education Research Complete is a great
way to find education related articles throughout the Cook Library collection.
For further assistance, visit the reference desk on the Library's main floor, call the
reference librarian there at (410)-704-2462, send an IM to TUCOOKCHAT, or send a text message
to 66746 and remember to start your question with the keyword ASKCOOK.