IPL literature review requirements: Five scholarly works and one first-person source
- Evaluate your sources using SIFT and SCARAB Methods (Evaluating Sources, McHenry County College);'
- What does "scholarly" mean?
Explains the range of sources that are considered scholarly, and how a scholarly source is different from a peer-reviewed one. American Public University System (APUS).
Search for Books
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ProQuest Ebook Central This link opens in a new window ProQuest Ebook Central provides ebooks from scholarly sources, including University Presses and other top publishers. To create a personal bookshelf or to access off-campus, sign in using your Emmanuel username and password. For more details on using Ebook Central explore the Proquest LibGuide.
Article Databases
General Searching Strategies
- Consider the who, what, where, when, and why of your topic.
- Identify synonyms, related concepts, alternate spellings.
- Explore both general and specific terms - a more general term will get you more results than a more specific term.
Combine your keywords in a search using search operators.
- Quotation marks search the phrase as a unit.
- AND narrows by connecting two terms/concepts. The search results must contain both terms/concepts.
- OR broadens your search. The search results will contain either or both terms and is used between synonyms or related terms.
Limits include: Peer Reviewed; publication date.
Article Databases: Ranked by Relevance
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Ebsco search for EducationSearches across the following databases: Academic Search Premier, Education Full Text (EBSCO), ERIC (EBSCO), and Teacher Reference Center.
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Education Journals This link opens in a new window Education Database includes over 1,000 full-text journals and 18,000 dissertations, supporting research on the theory and practice of education.
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JSTOR This link opens in a new windowSince results may contain articles that are not peer reviewed, search for the journal title using the A-Z Journals by Title list to verify the journal's peer-reviewed status.
Note: AND, OR, NOT must be entered in all uppercase. (See further details.)
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Google Scholar This link opens in a new window
- Click on the Full-Text@Emmanuel at the right of articles or the more option below the item record.
- Search for the journal title using the A-Z Journals by Title list to verify the journals peer-reviewed status.
Magazines/Trade Journals
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The Atlantic
- In addition to the monthly magazine, explore the The Atlantic web site for daily updates.
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Radical TeacherPromotes progressive social change in the field of education.
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Rethinking SchoolsGrassroots magazine for social and racial justice in education.