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| Format: | Recurso educativo Open Access |
| Language: | en |
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1988
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| Online Access: | https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED302252 |
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Table of Contents:
- Education Research Handbook. Hitchings, Donna, Ed. Wilson, Thomas C., Ed. Academic Libraries Educational Research Higher Education Library Instruction Library Skills Research Skills Search Strategies This handbook is designed as an introduction to the process of library research in the field of education. To illustrate the process, a sample topic is developed from a broad concept through a well-developed topic for a research paper. Following an overview of a successful research strategy, the chapters are organized in the order of a typical strategy: (1) encyclopedias, handbooks, and dictionaries; (2) library catalogs; (3) Library of Congress call numbers; (4) determining locations of books; (5) indexes; (6) locating journals and microforms; (7) finding government documents; (8) finding statistical information; (9) computer searching; (10) trouble-shooting; (11) evaluation of sources; and (12) formatting the final bibliography. (MES)