Have a look at these slides if you want an introduction or a review of how to search a library database, catalog and website. Welcome to graduate school!

1. Welcome
A Research Primer
for
Graduate Students
The University of Kansas Summer 2015
Edwards Campus

2. Dissertation Research Blog http://dissertationresearch.blogspot.com
Library Home Page http://www.lib.ku.edu

3. Where’s the stuff: http://www.lib.ku.edu
Databases / Peer-review journals / Articles
Library Catalog / Books / e-Books
e-Journals / by subject or title words
Dissertations / World-wide or KU authored
Subject and Course Guides

4. Libraries Homepage
http://www.lib.ku.edu

5. http://www.lib.ku.edu
Research
by Subject
& Course
Guides

8. Notice the tabs
to choose from:
Get Started,
Articles and
Databases,
Books, Web
Resources, Tests,
Statistics,
Evaluating and
Citing

9. When using the
databases from
off campus, you
will be ask to
sign in with your
KU ID and
Password

10. PsycINFO

11. Clicking
“Peer
reviewed”
limits a
search to
only
scholarly
articles.

14. I want to cite this
review, now.

16. Can I get full text of this review?
Get at KU

18. What if no full text of
an article is found?
Request a copy

19. If you are a First
time user of
WebRetrieve,
you need to fill
out this short
form (KU ID and
last name) to
register in the
library system so
that you can get
the books and
articles you
request.
This is my info
If it’s your 1st time you have no info

21. What happens next?
The Libraries will first check KU’s journal collection (print and
electronic). If the article cannot be found then the Libraries
request the article from other academic libraries. When KU
receives the article it will be in PDF format and you will be sent
an email with a link to the article you requested.
How long will that take?
Usually, about 2-3 days.

22. Searching another database: ERIC

24. * allows for any number
of letters at the end of a
word—this broadens the
search and usually gets
more hits then spelling
the entire word.
AND means that both
terms will be in the same
article.

26. Cited by 21

27. Of course
articles
are more
recent
than the
original
article.

30. Remember that the original article,
Neurodevelopmental Variation as a
Framework for Thinking about the Twice
Exceptional, was found on the ERIC database
using the search terms: “dyslex*” AND
creativ*” and had 138 references that the
author of the article used to write the article
along with his original research---Here are
some of those references:

31. Notice most have
links into articles,
cited by, and
references. Of
course they are
older in date than
the original article.

32. Find one good article and you will
have a collaboration of authors,
observations, research and
results.
(21 cited by and 138 references)

33. Databases for Dissertations

34. Most of the databases have dissertations included in the
collections they manage. Here are 2 specific databases that
cover only dissertations and theses:
1. Dissertations & Theses @ University of Kansas
Contains citations and abstracts of dissertations and theses submitted by the University of
Kansas and published in UMI's Dissertations Abstracts database, and full text of KU
dissertations published after 1996 and KU theses published after 2005.
2. ProQuest dissertations & theses
Provides online access to over 2 million dissertations and master's theses, many of which are
available in full text for immediate downloading. Citations are available for dissertations
dating from 1861 and full text online from 1997 for over 1,000 schools submitting to the
ProQuest UMI database. More than 55,000 new citations are added to the database every
year.

35. http://www.lib.ku.edu

37. dyslexia AND creativity

40. Dissertations & Theses from the
University of Kansas
1. Libraries Homepage
http://lib.ku.edu
2. Articles and Databases
3.

41. I had to
change my
search terms
because
there were
no “dyslexia
and
creativity”
articles to be
found.
Remain
flexible in
your search
method.

43. How to cite a
dissertation
found online?

47. Another Database:
Google Scholar?

48. Back to the
Libraries
Homepage:
lib.ku.edu

52. Link
Date restriction

54. Education Databases by Subject

55. Back to the
Libraries
Homepage:
lib.ku.edu

58. We now have: Articles from scholarly journals and
dissertations by using 5 databases :
1 PsycInfo
2 ERIC
3 Proquest Dissertations and Theses
4 Dissertations & Theses from the
University of Kansas
5 Google Scholar

59. Where are the Books?
Books are found in the Library Catalog

60. http://www.lib.ku.edu

61. How to order a book
from the
Lawrence campus

62. Not the
review but
the actual
book.
Don’t forget to limit
by date.

63. This is the catalog
record of the book
we want sent from
the Lawrence
Campus Libraries to
the Edwards
Campus. Select
“Recalls &
Requests” from the
top bar of
selections.

66. “Retrieve from
Shelf” is the
option to
select from the
drop-down
menu on the
“Request and
Retrieve” page.

67. Book request
made and you’ll
get the book here,
on the Edwards
Campus, in 2-4
days.

68. Does the library have E-Books?

76. An increasing number of the new books the library owns
are e-Books.
There are databases that access specifically e-Books
Ebrary Academic Complete
Provides access to more than 78,000 e-books from 500 publishers. Covering
broad subject areas.
HathiTrust digital library
A digital repository of collections (books and journals) of some of the major
research libraries in the United States
eBook Collection
Contains a searchable collection of electronic books on the EBSCO platform
which can be viewed or read online

77. Does the library have E-Journals?

79. Reading
I’m looking for an
e-journal titled
Reading (and
something)

80. These are journals
beginning with the
word “reading” and
the databases that
hold them. Reading
Teacher is the
journal I want to
look at.
Look closely to be sure
that the publication
date is current. Here
we’re going to look in a
database called “Wiley-
Blackwell . . . “ because
it continues publication
of Reading Teacher to
the present time.

83. Questions?

84. http://www.lib.ku.edu