Education Library Guide

• UNIC Library Search

  Discovery service for searching simultaneously all Library resources, both electronic and print.

• Use the search box on the Library home page to enter your terms.

• Use the the Advanced Search option to make your search more specific.

• Find more information about the availability of a book.

• Use the options on the left of your results to filter the content.

• Identify the type of a source by the icon on its left.

The below databases contain journal articles and other scholarly publications (e.g. conference papers, book reviews etc.) in Education. They provide access to source published by various publishers.

• Remember to choose the Full Text option for full-text results only. Databases provide access to:

• • abstracts – summaries of the items they index
  • full text - entire article of the items they index 

• ERIC

• Education Database

• Education Research Complete

• Teacher Reference Center

• Career & Technical Education Database

Databases in Psychology:

• PsycArticles

• PsycInfo

• Psychology Database

General databases:

• Academic Search Ultimate

• Research Library

Databases in Research Methods:

• SAGE Research Methods Video

  Includes hours of tutorials, interviews, video case studies, and mini-documentaries covering the entire research process. SRM Video can help students learn research skills by watching and listening and can help teaching faculty deliver memorable research methods and statistics lessons by providing interactive, engaging, visual content.

Reference works:

• Oxford Reference Online

  Bringing together 2 million digitized entries across Oxfords Dictionaries, Companions and Encyclopedias, Oxford Reference is the premier online reference product, spanning 25 different subject areas.

Plagiarism is passing off someone else’s work as your own, without giving credit to the person who produced the work.

How to avoid Plagiarism?

To avoid plagiarism, when given an assignment, you cite references you have found and create a list with these references (reference list) so that whoever reads your work can return to that source at a later date, and read the material themselves.  In this way the reader knows that you have used the ideas of someone else to help you support your own.  Since you are using someone else’s work for your own benefit, you need to refer to that author or work.  It is academically unacceptable and also illegal to present the work of others as your own and the university reserves the right to penalize anyone who steals the work of someone else.

What to avoid:

• Copying word for word someone else’s work
• Using a phrase or sentence from someone else without giving the reference
• Downloading material from the internet and presenting it as your own
• Paying someone else to do the work for you
• Copying the work or project of another student

Therefore, you need to make sure that you cite the references to your sources - that is, you give credit to the person who originally came up with the original work or idea.

How to create and manage your references:

There are two ways to create and manage your list of references for your written work:

1. 1. 1. Manually, in which case you should, while studying, record the details of the sources you find and save them so that you can track them later. Find a method to organize your references, by saving them into a word processing file, or using social bookmarking tools.

      2. Using a bibliographic management tool like RefWorks, which helps create your bibliography by formatting and exporting your references into your document

Welcome to Education library guide that will help you find resources for your subject.