Use our online catalog to find books and government documents that are physically located in the library. Use this link if you are on campus and can physically go to the library to check out books.
Here are two suggestions:
1. At the Quick Search search screen, enter your search terms just as you would in an Internet search engine such as Google. When results come up, they will be in order of relevance, NOT DATE.
2. For a more precise search, and one that lists results in date order, go to the Advanced Search screen and enter terms into the form. Search terms can be truncated with a ?; for example, child? will search for child, children, child-like, childhood, etc.
3. If you have trouble locating resources, try to make your topic broader. For example, if I had trouble finding material on "acid rain ," I could broaden my search to "air pollution."
4. If you have trouble finding books, please contact Anne, or the Research Help Desk.
There are a few ways to receive UWRF books at your remote location:
1) If you live near another UW campus, you can use our Universal Borrowing function to request books that are in the UW system. The books are then mailed to the UW campus nearest you, where you can pick them up. For more information about Universal Borrowing, click here.
2) If you do NOT live near another UW school, you can either: (a) order any book directly from the public library in your city (all libraries have inter-library loan forms you can complete, either online or paper), or (b) contact UWRF's Interlibrary Loan Librarian, Ann, and she can contact your local public library and make arrangements to have a UWRF book delivered there. Here is Ann's contact information:
Ann Welniak, Interlibrary Loan Librarian
ann.welniak@uwrf.edu
(715) 425-4286
THE CHANCELLOR'S LEADERSHIP COLLECTION
Our Library also houses The Chancellor's Leadership Collection. This is a collection of books designed to motivate and education those interested in leadership. Check it out! Click here to browse materials in the collection. This collection is also a part of our online catalog, as well.
REFERENCE COLLECTION: EDUCATION-RELATED ENCYLOPEDIAS
If you're ever on-campus, check out our some of our educational encyclopedias. They are located in the area next to the Research Help Desk.
Encyclopedia of Education (REF LB15 .E47 2003)
Encyclopedia of School Psychology (REF LB1027 .55 .E523 2005)
Handbook on Educational Psychology (REF LB1051 .H2354 1996)
Encyclopedia of Educational Leadership and Administration (REF LB2805 .E527 2006)
Youth, Education and Sexualities (REF LC192.6 .Y68 2005)
Handbook of Special Education (REF LC4007 .E53 2000)
Encyclopedia of Leadership (REF HD57 .5 E53 2004)
Badgerlink is a project of the DPI, Division for Libraries, Technology, and Community Learning. Its goal is to provide access to quality online information resources for Wisconsin residents in cooperation with the state's public, school, academic, and special libraries and Internet Service Providers. BadgerLink resources are available through this site include book catalog, and newspaper/journal databases. If you ever have trouble connecting to UWRF's databases, go here as an alternative.
We all love Google, but there is a better place to conduct scholarly research. Most libraries pay lots of money to subscribe to magazine and newspaper databases. These are huge collections of electronic magazine articles that you can search using a topic or keyword. Sometimes this is called the "hidden web" because it's on the web, but you can't access it through search engines such as Google or Yahoo--you have to access them through (usually) library web pages. If you are using them from off-campus, you will be prompted to enter your Falcon Account "W number" and password.
* If the database does not default to an "advanced search" option (i.e., if it only offers you a single box in which to enter search terms) look around for and use the "advanced search" screen. Usually there is a tab or link to click on. This will allow you to enter multiple terms into a form. For example:
* Use the asterisk * (shift 8) to truncate words (I'll demonstrate this in class). Truncation allows a searcher to place a symbol at the end of a term's root. The search will then retrieve all words sharing that root word. It will really expand your searching capabilities. For example, if you enter the search term children, most databases will only search for that particular word. However, if you enter the search term child*, the databases will search for all words that begin with child: children, childhood, childlike, childish, childless, etc. Very convenient! I almost always truncate all my search terms.
* If you do not see a full-text link for an article, use the library's Find It software. If you click on the "Find It" icon, it will tell you if there is full text available in ANY of the databases we own, or in our paper collection. Find It also has an "interlibrary loan" button that allows you to place a request for any article that is not full-text online. I will demonstrate this in class.
* IMPORTANT NOTE: If you find an article in a database that is NOT full text, but is available in the Library's paper journal collection (you can determine this via the Find It button), we understand that you may not be able to physically come to the library to copy it. We can email the article to you instead. To do this from the Find It screen, click on the Interlibrary Loan link. Complete the form. IN THE NOTES SECTION, TYPE "DE STUDENT." This will indicate to Ann that you are NOT able to get to campus and retrieve the article yourself. If you forget to do this step, she will send you an email telling you to go to the library and copy the article yourself. If you indicate you are a DE student, the article will be sent electronically to your UWRF email account, usually within 5 days. If you ever have questions about email delivery, please contact Ann Welniak in the Interlibrary Loan Department. Her office phone number is: 715-425-4286; email: interlibrary loan@uwrf.edu.
Indexes and abstracts over 400 journals, with some full-text, starting in 1996. Also indexes books relating to education published from 1995 to the present. Indexes about 70 journals that are not indexed in ERIC.
Indexes over 750 education journals and more than 350,000 ERIC documents (research reports, curriculum guides, conference papers, handbooks produced by school systems, etc.). The library owns many of the journals indexed, as well as ERIC documents on microfiche from 1966 through mid-1970 and mid-1973 to 2004.
Designed for professional educators, provides a highly specialized collection of more than 750 full text journals, including more than 350 peer-reviewed titles. In addition to full text, indexing and abstracts are provided for more than 900 journals. Full text information dates as far back as 1965.
Provides abstracts and indexing (no full text) for 1300 journals. Also includes abstracts for dissertations, books and book chapters.
Full text for more than 2,000 serials, including more than 1,500 peer-reviewed titles. This multi-disciplinary database covers virtually every area of academic study. More than 100 journals have PDF images back to 1985. This database is updated on a daily basis.
Indexes and abstracts 415 journals starting in 1994. It offers full- text from 115 of those journals starting in 1995.
Search thousands of scholarly journals by author or keyword, or use the powerful cited reference search to find articles from journals that have cited a book or another article
Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction
The DPI has a link to many legal web sites that are relevant to educators.
Google U.S. Government Search offers a single location for searching across U.S. government information, and for keeping up to date on government news. You can choose to search for content located on either U.S. federal, state and local government web sites or the entire Web -- from the same search box. Below the search box, the homepage includes government-specific news content from both government agencies and press outlets.
Michele's List of Good Government Web sites
Michele McKnelly is our Government Documents librarians. Check out her education web sites.
Instead of relying on your favorite internet search engine (e.g., Google or Yahoo), try using an internet gateway. These are collections of pre-selected web sites plus a search interface. A great place to go for scholarly web sites. Here is a list of our favorites: Web search tools. My favorites are Infomine and the Librarians' Internet Index.
National Association of School Psychologists (http://www.nasponline.org/ )
Here is a color-coded explanation of MLA Citation Style (for work cited page, not internal document quotations). Here is also a list of other citation web pages!
Presented by...
Anne Tuveson, Reference Librarian
Chalmer Davee Library, Rm 261
I work Tues & Wed all day; Thursday evenings.
To contact Anne: anne.tuveson@uwrf.edu (or) 715-425-3343
To contact the Research Help Desk: click here for a link to our email reference service, or call 715-425-3343 to speak with the Research Help Desk.
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