How to Use:
Education Journals
1st - - - Open the Search Screen 

On-campus: Go to the Decker Library homepage (www.mica.edu/library/library.html) and click on Catalog and Databases – then click on Education Journals.

Off-campus: Log in to the myMICA portal and click on the Academic Resources tab. The Library Research Databases pagelet appears on the right side of that page. Click on Education Journals. Use the Personalize Content option of your myMICA portal page to add the Library Research Databases pagelet to your portal homepage.

Education Journals offers complete information on hundreds of educational topics and covers more than 600 leading journals including text and images from such journals as Childhood Education, College Teaching, Harvard Educational Review, Journal of Athletic Training, Educational Theory, and Urban Education.

For several publications, full-text coverage dates from 1991 or 1992. For some, full-image coverage dates from 1988; Text + Graphics from 1996. In all, close to 400 journals are available in full-text and/or image formats.
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2nd- - - Type Search Term(s)

Click Advanced Search.

Type search keywords into the text boxes provided. To get the best results, enter complete and specific words.

Spelling is important!

Phrases of two words are automatically treated as a phrase. If you enter a phrase of three or more words, ProQuest will look for articles that mention all three words within close proximity to each other. To search for the exact phrase with three or more words, you must enclose it in quotation marks.

Your search can be formulated with the following strategies:
Use several words or phrases connected by one or more of the following operators:
AND – each record retrieved must include both words – makes search more specific
OR – retrieves records containing either of the terms – makes search more general
AND NOT - each record retrieved can have the first word but not the second
WITHIN 3 - each record retrieved must include the first word 3 words before or 3 words after the second word
PRE/3 - each record retrieved must include the search terms within the same 3 words of a field

Use the pull-down menus to the left of the search boxes to choose the operators.

Additional search boxes can be added by clicking the "Add a row" link just below the search-term boxes.

Pull-down menus to the right of the search boxes determine which fields of the database's index will be searched given the specific term you have entered.

Additional pull-down menus below the search boxes offer more options for limiting your search. Using them, you can switch between or select multiple databases, select a date range, and choose full-text and/or scholarly journals.

Clicking the "More Search Options" link at the bottom of the page, makes it possible to:
- Search a specific Publication title.
- Limit your search to specific publication types.
- Select how to sort your results.
 - Choose how many items to display on each results page. Choose the maximum (30) to avoid paging forward when viewing results.

 In addition, one can browse the index of each search option by clicking the "Browse" links to the right of each option's search box.

Click the Search button and the search engine will produce a list of results.

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3rd- - - View search results

Results are a list of relevant items including summaries (abstracts) of each. Each entry contains the citation and an indication of the formats available for viewing the item. The available formats are indicated below the citation and may include Text+Graphics, Full-Text, Page-Image - PDF, and/or Abstract. Click on the title link or any of the format links to view the article record.

A number of options for narrowing or broadening your search results are displayed at the top of the results list.

Options that narrow your search include one-click tabs that limit the results by publication type and/or links that will display dates, publication titles, and topics drawn from the specific results of your search.

Options that broaden your search include "Suggested Topics" and "Browse Suggested Publications" links that are again based on your specific search results.

You can print a list of citations (see below) or copy the information in your own shorthand.

The information needed to find an article in a library includes:
Article title and author; Journal title; Volume; Issue number; Date; Page numbers.
For example:
“Humanities and Human Development” by Martha C. Nussbaum. In Journal of Aesthetic Education, Vol. 36 Issue 3 (Fall 2002), p39

For full-text items, choose the Full Text (HTML) or the PDF version to read online, email, or save to disk.

MICA’s Decker Library owns relatively few of the journal titles in this databases, so if full-text is not available, it may be necessary to order them through Interlibrary Loan, allowing up to 2 weeks for delivery. See a Reference Librarian for assistance, providing full citations to the articles needed.
 
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4th - - - Print, save, or email records

When viewing the full record of an article, simply click the Print or Email buttons at the top and bottom of the left-hand side of the page.

Use "save as" in the file menu of the browser toolbar to download the record. You will need to save it to a floppy, zip disk, or CD-ROM in order to keep what you've saved.

As you view citations, clicking in the check box to the left of each record adds it to a list(you can save up to 50). To view all of your marked articles, click "View Marked Articles."

When viewing the marked list, you can choose between the "Articles and Bibliography" tab and the "My Research Summary" tab. Under "Articles and Bibliography" one can print or export the citations or email the articles. You can also perform a "save as" from the file menu of the browser's toolbar to download the marked list. Using "Research Summary" you can download or e-mail a summary of your searches as an HTML file.

You can also edit the research summary by adding, deleting, or annotating your searches. Click "update" when you have finished editing the research summary.

Saving or e-mailing the records not only gives you a good record of what you’ve found, but you can cut and paste text into a bibliography without retyping it.
 
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5th - - - Advanced Searching

To learn about more advanced search techniques, click the "Search Tips" link located above and to the right of the search box area. Several methods for formulating more specific searches are covered.

Two especially useful techniques involve use of truncation and the wildcard character.

Truncation is represented by a question mark (?) which can be used to replace a single character or multiple characters if you aren’t sure of the exact form and don’t want to limit your results.
Example:
wom?n will retrieve records containing the words "woman" or "women".
furni? will retrieve records containing the words "furniture" or "furnishings".

The wildcard character, represented by an asterisk ( * ). This symbol * is used at the right-hand side of a word to find all forms of a word.
Example:
architect* will retrieve records containing the words "architects", "architecture", "architectural', etc.
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6th - - - Citing Journal Articles in footnotes/bibliographies

See citation examples for the following formats, online, courtesy of Western Washington University http://www.library.wwu.edu/ref/citn.htm:

MLA (Modern Language Association)
Chicago Manual of Style
APA (American Psychological Association)

Examples from MLA (Modern Language Association):
Footnote or Endnote
100Paul Michaud, "Paris exhibit puts Matisse and Morocco in focus," Art Business News 26/12 (Dec 1999): 26.

KEY: Number of note in superscript. Author first name, last name, "Article Title," Journal Title (italicized or underlined) Volume #/Issue # (Date): page of quotation source.

Citation embedded parenthetically within text
Blah blah blah, blah as Michaud says, "Blah, blah, etc." (Michaud 26). Blah blah blah etc.

(If bibliography contains just one work by Michaud, otherwise use Michaud a, Michaud b, etc.)

Article Bibliography, Basic Form
Michaud, Paul. "Paris exhibit puts Matisse and Morocco in focus." Art Business News 26/12 (Dec 1999): 26-27.

KEY: Author last name, first name. "Article Title." Journal Title (italicized or underlined) Volume #/Issue # (date): page numbers overall.

Full Text Article from an Online Database
Michaud, Paul. "Paris exhibit puts Matisse and Morocco in focus." Art Business News 26/12 (Dec 1999): 26-27. Art Full Text. The H.W. Wilson Co. 8 April 2002 <http://www.hwwilsonweb.com>.

KEY: Author last name, first. "Article Title." Journal Title (italicized or underlined) Volume #/Issue # (date): page numbers overall. Database title (italicized or underlined). Database publisher. Date accessed. <URL where accessed>.
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