College of Education: Library and Research Resources

This Education Subject Guide contains general library, information literacy and library research information for the College of Education. It also links to more specific information on College of Education departments.

Strategies for Digging Deeper and Mining Specific Resources

  • Search Databases by Subject (discipline specific topics)
  • Search Databases by Type. This is especially useful if searching for data repositories, databases containing statistical data, or newspapers.
  • You can also search directly in the online journal by issue, volume number, and year by clicking on the Online Journal Link on the Library homepage (put in the name of the journal and then click the name to see all of the issues together. If the journal name does not appear in the list, then we do not have the journal and you can order through interlibrary loan
  • Use Digital Dissertations & Theses Global Click on “P” for Proquest Dissertations to find international masters these and doctoral dissertations and Mine IT! –  a good broad starting point
  • Copy the article titles from GOOD resources you find, paste those titles into Google Scholar and try to find those resources
  • Use the website Connected Papers to find the articles before and after a GOOD resource and see results in a network map
  • Use Open Knowledge Maps to see papers organized by sub-topics and concepts to explore

Searching for Books

On the Library website, search in the main field on the library homepage and your search will return will links to everything in the catalog.

Once inside the catalog click on the Advanced Search link to narrow down and refine your search. Select just books from the pull down menu, or use the faceted search menu (on the right) to select just books. You can filter by date, type of resource, if it is a scholarly source or not, etc.

Additional Books

Australian National University Press (ANU): Published peer-reviewed research on a broad range of topics including Asia and Pacific studies, Australian politics, humanities, arts, Indigenous studies and science. Launched in 2004. To date, ANU Press has published over 1,000 publications, all of which are freely available on this website.

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