Conducting Your Literature Review
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RESEARCH QUESTION Write in a sentence or paragraph
  IDENTIFY KEY CONCEPTS
     variables of interest		 synonyms 
equivalent terms in thesaurus
  IDENTIFY RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN CONCEPTS/VARIABLES (Boolean logic) Boolean searching on the Internet from University of Albany Libraries
     AND both concepts must be present--retrieve areas of intersection only
     OR either concept --create sets of synonymous terms
WHAT KIND OF INFORMATION?
1.  BOOKS Secondary and Tertiary Resources
  Hamilton

Search UH Voyager system    http://uhmanoa.lib.hawaii.edu/
Note that this is a shared database of all the UH System Libraries; check location for UHManoa: Hamilton

  Hawaii State Public Library Library Catalog    HSPL Homepage
  recently published http://www.amazon.com
  ENTIRE UNIVERSE OF BOOKS WorldCat database of books, web resources, etc. from OCLC   
Library of Congress
  National Library of Education http://www.ed.gov/NLE/
  Government Documents http://libweb.hawaii.edu/libdept/govdocs/index.html
  Book not available Consider Interlibrary Loan from Hamilton Library
2.  JOURNAL Citations on a specific topic/by a specific author Primary Resources
         The following databases may be helpful.

ERIC database--citations to the journal and other research literature in education,

   Journals identified CIJE--Current Index of Journals of Education or EJ, check Hamilton's online catalog for specific journal title
    Documents identified as ED####### or ED or EDRS available online; may also be a book--check Voyager catalog

ERIC database from Cambridge Scientific Abstracts via Hamilton Library
 results can be imported into EndNote.

Quick Start Guide from Hamilton

ERIC database from EbscoHost via Hamilton Library select ERIC

includes direct links to EDRS documents and link to Voyager catalog

Quick Start Guide from Hamilton
Academic Search Premier, EbscoHost
interdisciplinary database includes over 4800 full-text journals
Academic Search Premier from EbscoHost via Hamilton

Quick Start Guide

ScienceDirect
Over 1,200 peer reviewed academic journals; includes some education, social science titles

 ScienceDirect via Hamilton
PsycInfo database produced by Am. Psychological Assn.; index to the behavioral science literature

PsycInfo from Cambridge Scientific Abstracts via Hamilton

Quick Start Guide

ABI/Inform Global an index to the business literature;  includes some full text articles; business aspects of education

ABI/Inform Global via Hamilton
Social Sciences Citation Index access to 1,400 of the world's leading social science journals and selected items from 3,300 science journals by cited author, cited work, title word, journal title, author name and author address. Using the Related Records feature, one record of interest can lead to others which have references in common

Search via ISI Web of Science; Hamilton subscribes to 1980-present
includes science, social science, and humanities

 
Sociological Abstracts literature of sociology from 2,000 journals published worldwide. It includes informationpublished in Sociological Abstracts since 1963, citations to dissertations added to the database since 1986.

Search via Hamilton

Quick Start Guide

PubMed MEDLINE over 12 million citations as well as links to full-text from the biomedical journal. Mid-1960's to present. Consider using for special education topics.

Search via Hamilton with full-text links

Interactive tutorial from National Library of Medicine
MEDLINEplus full-text information of authoratative information on a range of diseases/health conditions, drugs, etc. from the National Library of Medicine Free to all via National Library of Medicine
RedLightGreen To help students find authoritative sources for research information, by leveraging data contained within the RLG Union Catalog
Link
LOCAL, National or International Expert in the area of interest Contact person directly, conduct an author search, etc.
Other Databases Available for Searching via Hamilton Library Link to database lists from Hamilton Library
Dissertations Abstracts online Digital Dissertations fulltext 1997-
Dissertations and Theses at UH Manoa full text 1996-
 Current Research @ University of Hawaii
 
3. STATISTICS
State of Hawaii Data Book http://www.hawaii.gov/dbedt/ 
State Department of Education http://doe.k12.hi.us/
Native Hawaiian Data book http://oha.org/databook
National Center for Education Statistics http://www.ed.gov/NCES
University of Hawaii, Institutional Research Office http://www.hawaii.edu/iro/
U.S. Census Bureau's American Factfinder http://factfinder.census.gov/java_prod/dads.ui.homePage.HomePage
   
4.  LOCATING a JOURNAL TITLE  
  Electronic Journal Access Available via Hamilton   Library http://micro189.lib3.hawaii.edu/ezproxy/
  Check if print journal available at Hamilton Library Check UH Voyager online catalog
  Interlibrary Loans from Hamilton Library http://libweb.hawaii.edu/uhmlib/forms/forms_ill.html
   
ASK A LIBRARIAN for ASSISTANCE!!  

 

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Updated 09/16/04
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