EDLD 6890 - Accountability in Higher Education Guide
Overview
The resources listed here have been selected for the work you are doing in this class as well as for future research in your program. This is by no means a complete list of resources you might need to consult. Please ask for assistance if you have any trouble locating information on your topic.
It is a good idea to keep track of key words and terms that retrieve relevant information. Key words which work successfully in one source may or may not work well in another source. You may need to try multiple terms to find what you are looking for.
The sources on this list have a good deal of full text, but not everything is available in full text online. You will need to use the Interlibrary Loan Service to request materials that are not available in full text.
Instructional videos on the use of the interlibrary loan service as well as many databases and electronic resources are also available here: http://www.wmich.edu/library/tutorials/
Please feel free to contact me if you have questions.
michele.behr@wmich.edu
Journal Articles
ERIC
The Educational Resources Information Center indexes and abstracts over 2,000 journals and more than 450,000 reports in education and related fields. Some documents are available full text, the rest are on microfiche in the Education Library. Covers 1966-present. Updated monthly.
This is the FirstSearch version, also available from CSA and from the US government. Tutorial See also the instructional videos on ERIC at http://www.wmich.edu/library/tutorials/eric.php
for help with searching and locating materials in ERIC.
Scopus Scopus is a very large abstract and indexing database primarily covering scholarly literature in science and social science. Use this to get extensive inter-disciplinary access to journal articles and also to find out which articles are being cited by other scholars. Scopus includes 14,000 peer-reviewed titles from more than 4,000 international publishers. Coverage from 1995. Tutorial
- RefWorks Info: Scopus will export marked citations directly into your RefWorks account. (You will be prompted to login.)
ABI/INFORM Global An index of over 1,800 publications with abstracts, and full text from over 700 of these titles, selected from newspapers, trade publications, and journals on business including, for example, administration, economics, computers, finance, human resources, management, and marketing. Full-text of Wall Street Journal articles available from 1984. Otherwise coverage is from 1971 to the present with some older material available. Updated daily. A good source for business or administrative topics.
ProQuest Research Library Indexes popular magazines, scholarly journals, newspapers and trade publications in a wide range of subject areas, including business, education, humanities, social sciences, and sciences. Full-text available for over 2,500 journals. Coverage from 1971. A good, general purpose source which uses the same interface as ABI/Inform and the Dissertations database.
Education Abstracts Indexes more than 700 English-language periodicals in education. Coverage: 1983 to the present, abstracts from 1994. Updated weekly. A smaller database than ERIC, but coverage is more current.
Chronicle of Higher Education Articles in this publication are indexed in databases such as ERIC and Education Abstracts. Coverage September 1989-date. This is the WMU electronic subscription to this publication. This is a very important source in the field of Higher Education.
Books/Electronic Books
WorldCat Comprehensive catalog of books and other materials in libraries around the world. Contains millions of records in hundreds of languages. Nonbook materials include (among other publication formats) the titles of journals and magazines, manuscripts, maps, electronic resources, websites, computer programs, music scores, films, slides, sound recordings, conference proceedings, and videotapes. Items located through WorldCat must be requested through Interlibrary Loan unless they are also listed in the WMU Libraries catalog.
Dissertations
Dissertations and Theses (ProQuest) Indexes virtually all doctoral dissertations and many masters theses produced in the U.S. since 1860 and many from foreign schools as well. Abstracts available from 1980. Full text for most dissertations available from 1997. Some authors choose to not make their dissertations available. Print and microfilm copies are offered for a fee, but check out Interlibrary Loan before paying for a copy.
- RefWorks Info: Dissertations and Theses (Proquest) will export marked citations directly into your RefWorks account. (You will be prompted to login.)
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Michele D. Behr
michele.behr@wmich.edu
269-387-5611
Last updated: January 2006