This week's issue will provide some basic guidance for conducting a search and displaying and printing the results. If these databases are among those you will be using for research, you may want to print the following and walk through a search using your own search statements. Then select any of the databases named above. This will bring up a screen listing all of the databases by selected years. Clicking on this button will bring up information on each database including years covered, full text information, etc.
Various options are available on the main search screen.
The choices will vary by database. A very important option for the ERIC database is the limit by Document Type, for example, search for research-based materials only. The thesaurus provides information on the controlled vocabulary used to index the database. The Record Display screen shows the number of records the search retrieved and the search statement. Records contain hypertext links for author's names and journal names.