Welcome to Joyner Library! This web page is designed specifically for students completing graduate degrees in the College of Education's Educational Leadership program. It will direct you to library resources where you can find books, journal articles, and theses and dissertations, as well as providing you with links to other helpful research tools. If you need help at anytime, please do not hesitate to Ask a Librarian! Library Basics The following links provide basic information about the library: Hours
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Pull and Hold Service If you are a distance education student, please see our distance education web page for services provided to you. Please note: residents of Pitt County are not eligible for these services. Primary Databases Several primary databases are geared toward the field of education. You will want to search these first for citations to journal articles, books, documents, dissertations, etc. when completing literature reviews. They include: ERIC via EBSCO: ERIC is the premiere indexing and abstracting source for education and related disciplines. Covers 1966-present. Education Research Complete: Education Research Complete is the definitive online resource for education research. This massive file offers the world's largest and most complete collection of full text education journals. It is a bibliographic and full text database covering scholarly research and information relating to all areas of education. Topics covered include all levels of education from early childhood to higher education, and all educational specialties, such as multilingual education, health education, and testing. Education Research Complete also covers areas of curriculum instruction as well as administration, policy, funding, and related social issues. The database provides indexing and abstracts for more than 1,500 journals, as well as full text for more than 750 journals. This database also includes full text for more than 100 books and monographs, and full text for numerous education-related conference papers. Covers 1866 - present.
Secondary Databases Depending upon the topic of your research you may need to consult additional databases to find journal articles, theses and dissertations, research studies, or to identify the core literature related to your topic. The following databases provide access to these types of resources: Proquest Dissertations and Theses: Includes citations for dissertations, beginning with the first U.S. dissertation accepted in 1861to those accepted as recently as last semester. Dissertations published from 1980 forward include author-written abstracts. Citations for master's theses from 1988 forward include abstracts. The database represents the work of authors from over 1,000 North American graduate schools and European universities. UMI offers over a million dissertations in full text, for an additional fee, which must be paid by the user. Users may also request Interlibrary Loan for dissertations. There are no fees to download dissertations written by ECU students. Web of Science: Provides web access to the Science Citation Index Expanded, the Social Sciences Citation Index, and the Arts & Humanities Citation Index. Collectively, these three databases index more than 8,000 high quality, peer-reviewed journals cover-to-cover, providing users with complete bibliographic data, author abstracts (when available), and cited references. The databases can be searched separately or in any combination. The Web of Science is produced by the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI). This database is an excellent resource for identifying the core literature of a subject. Covers 1984-present. PsycInfo: Covers the professional and academic literature in psychology and related disciplines including medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, social work, law, criminology, education, pharmacology, physiology, linguistics, and organizational behavior. The coverage is worldwide, and includes references and abstracts to nearly 2,000 journals in more than 20 languages, and to dissertations, technical reports, book chapters and books in the English language. This database is excellent for locating particular types of studies such as empirical, qualitative, quantitative, case studies, etc. One must conduct an advanced search to limit to a particular type of study. E-Journals by Publisher: Joyner Library subscribes to some journals directly from the publisher. These articles may not be found in other databases. For topics related to education, search the journals published by Lawrence Erlbaum and Associates, Sage Full-text Collections, and Taylor and Francis Metapress. Finding Books From the library homepage at http://www.lib.ecu.edu, click on the Library Catalog tab to search for books: you may search by title, author, or subject. Two useful Library of Congress Subject Headings for this course are: Educational Leadership
Educational Leadership -- United States Other subject headings will be applicable depending upon your topic. Please contact a librarian to assist you in identifying pertinent subject headings.
Once you have located a book in the catalog note the title of the book, the collection, and call number, as in this example: Inclusive Leadership by James Ryan
Collection: Joyner Stacks
Call number: LB2801 .A2 R93 2006 For more help searching the Joyner catalog, see How Do I...Use the Joyner Library Catalog?
To locate this book if you are able to come into Joyner Library, use the call number charts on the wall by the stairs to determine on which floor books with those call numbers will be found. Students living in Pitt County, even if taking courses online, will have to visit the library personally to check out books. If you are a distance learning student living outside of Pitt County, you can ask that books be mailed to you. See: http://www.ecu.edu/cs-lib/Distance/index.cfm Just keep in mind that books located in Reference areas cannot circulate or be mailed out.
The library has an increasing number of book titles available electronically. NetLibrary, for example, is a collection of books from various publishers that are available in electronic format. As an ECU student, you have access to a collection of more than 30,000 reference, scholarly and professional books. These are available by searching the library's catalog. For more information see: How Do I....Use Netlibrary?
Other Tools Refworks: RefWorks is a Web-based bibliography and database manager that allows users to create their own personal database of citations and notes. Citations can be imported from text files or online databases which support RefWorks (most of ECU's databases do). Users can have RefWorks insert citations and format the bibliographies for their papers. Many types of sources may be used for the citations, and a large number of citation styles are supported. Free registration required. Need More Help? Contact us anytime at "Ask a Librarian" or phone the Reference Desk at (252) 328-6677 during regular Reference hours. |
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