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A database is an organized collection of information, data, or citations stored in electronic format. Since each database includes a different set of journals, magazines, newspapers, and other resources, searching more than one database can help you to find additional information.
Good for: Researching education topics.
Contains: Journal articles.
Dates covered: 1996-present.
Good for: Researching education.
Contains: Journal articles, book chapters, and educational reports.
Dates covered: 1966-present.
Good for: Educators seeking resources related to professional development topics.
Contains: Education journals and reports.
Good for: Dissertations and theses.
Contains: Citations, abstracts, and full text of dissertations and theses.
Dates covered: Citations from 1861, abstracts from 1980 for dissertations and 1988 for theses, full text from 1996 for UNLV items and 1997 for most others.
Good for: Exploring a wide range of scholarly topics.
Contains: Scholarly journals, ebooks, art images and primary source collections
Good for: Researching psychological literature.
Contains: Journal articles, books, and dissertations.
Dates covered: 1800-present.
Use the following Citation Indexes to see which articles have cited one another.
Good for: Researching peer-reviewed scientific, medical, technical, and social science literature.
Contains: Index to literature.
Dates covered: 1960-present.
Good for: Researching a wide range of topics in science, social science, arts, and humanities.
Contains: Citations to scholarly journal articles and conference papers.
Dates covered: 1900-present.
Interlibrary Loan (ILL) allows UNLV students, staff, and faculty to borrow from other libraries if items are not available at UNLV Libraries.
Log in using your ACE account to request items.
You can also request a scanned copy of any article or chapter we have in print through your ILLiad account.
RefWorks offers a way to collect, manage and organize research papers and documents. I highly recommend that you set up an account to help with organizing sources and creating bibliographies. You can read annotate, organize, and cite your research as well as collaborate with friends and colleagues by sharing collections.
The UNLV Libraries has an extensive library guide about RefWorks: Learn more here
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Place quotation marks around words to search for an exact phrase, e.g., "high school" (works in many databases and Google) |
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And or Not connector between concepts |
“Or” connector between synonyms |
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Field Limiters, e.g., dates, type of document |
Truncation or Wildcard (e.g., child* to search for all terms beginning with child, e.g. child, children, childcare) |
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Use the controlled vocabulary (human assigned main topics --Thesaurus) |
Free-text or keyword searching (computer mediated, no human intervention) |
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Proximity searching, e.g., first year n3 retention (finds results in which first year is found within 3 words of retention) |
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A note about Google Scholar . . . Although Google Scholar contains many resources, it does not have many options to narrow down your results. Also, never purchase articles via Google Scholar. Many are available for free through the UNLV Libraries or via Interlibrary Loan.
For help connecting to UNLV Libraries' resources through Google Scholar see the following.
