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EDU 6320: Culturally Responsive Teaching Methods

This is a guide to library resources in the course EDU 6320: Culturally Responsive Teaching Methods. Here you will find databases, electronic journals, tutorials, and other information.

Finding Articles - Printed Indexes & Databases

You can find journal and magazine articles by subject in one of two ways:

  1. a printed index
  2. a journal database

What are They and What's the Difference?

Before publications became more readily available online, researchers located articles through a printed index. 

An index, within a library setting, is a list of articles or other publications within a discipline or topic. It provides bibliographic information such as:

  • author(s) 
  • title 
  • place of publication
  • abstracts
    • note: not all printed indices contain abstracts

Example of a Printed Periodical Index at the West Library

Databases contain large amounts of structured sets of data.  The data can be in the form of a listing of names, addresses, citations to journals and magazines, or many other kinds of information.  Journal databases are the evolution of the print periodical indexes into the digital world, where they are much easier to use.

Advantages of Databases

  • They index more resources
  • They index a wider date range of resources
  • You can perform more complex searches in databases

Journal Databases for EDU 6320

Journal databases relevant to this course can be found on the "Articles" tab of this guide.

Databases Available at the West Library

You can view all of the databases available at the West Library on our Online Resources A to Z page.

Fields are where a database stores a specific kind of information in a record.  For example, in the author field, you will find the author's names.  Separating information about a source into fields enables you to search for a term in a specific field, thus allowing you to focus your search.

 

Examples of Fields in Databases
Field Code Field Name
TX All Text
AB Abstract
AU Author
TI Title
SU Subject Terms
SO Journal Title/Source

 

Example of a Detailed Record in EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS)