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Updated regularly. Provides indexing for some 400 periodicals, including full text for over 200 titles, in areas related to communication and mass media. CMMC incorporates CommSearch (formerly produced by the National Communication Association (NCA)), and Mass Media Articles Index (formerly produced by Pennsylvania State University). CommSearch offered bibliographic and keyword references to 26 journals in communication studies, with coverage extending to the inaugural issue of each -- some from as far back 1915. It also included cover-to-cover indices of NCA's six journals (from their first editions to the present), and abstracts from their earliest appearance in NCA journals. Mass Media Articles Index provided citation coverage of over 40,000 articles related to mass media and published in over 60 research journals, as well as major journalism reviews, recent encyclopedias, and handbooks in the area of communications studies.
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Embase provides coverage of the biomedical literature, with over 31 million records from over 8,500 currently published journals, including over 7 million records and more than 3,000 journals that are not covered by MEDLINE. Offers extensive coverage of searchable conference abstracts dating back to 2009. It currently indexes over 6,000 conferences covering ~350,000 conference abstracts each year. Embase uses Emtree, the Elsevier Life Science thesaurus: a hierarchically structured, controlled vocabulary for biomedicine and the related life sciences. It includes a range of terms for drugs, diseases, medical devices and essential life science concepts
Some key encyclopedias that aren't all included in the database above...
Encyclopedia of Autism Spectrum Disorders
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Encyclopedia of Education and Human Development
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Encyclopedia of Mathematics Education
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Encyclopedia of Science Education
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Encyclopedia of Special Education
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Handbook of Special Education
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The Praeger International Handbook of Special Education [3 Volumes]
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The SAGE Encyclopedia of Intellectual and Developmental Disorders
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Below are some selected, recent books about special education research methods, and you'll find additional recent books about educational research methods in our Library Catalog.
Evidence-Based Practice in Education: Functions of Evidence and Causal Presuppositions
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Foundations of Education Research: Understanding Theoretical Components
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The Meta-Analysis Research in Special Education
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Practical Research Methods in Education: An Early Researcher’s Critical Guide
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Research Methods in Special Education
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Systematic Reviews in Educational Research: Methodology, Perspectives and Application
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Treatment Fidelity in Studies of Educational Intervention
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We buy lots of books to support you as a writer. You'll find recent examples below and additional books about academic writing in our Library Catalog.
Conducting Your Literature Review
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Demystifying Academic Writing
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Dissertation Solutions
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Literature Review and Research Design
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Mastering Academic Writing in the Sciences
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Publishing Journal Articles
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Successful Academic Writing
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Writing Empirical Research Reports
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Writing Literature Reviews
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Writing Skills for Education Students
Self-paced Resources:
The first link below contains a list of self-paced resources curated by librarians to support knowledge of the evidence synthesis process. The list is organized into the following categories: Comprehensive Resources, Systematic Review Foundations, Process Management/Communication, Research Methodology, Comprehensive Searching, Data Management, Reporting, & Helpful Tools
Books:
The first link is an Open Education Resource book designed for graduate students completing a systematic review. It includes optional module quizzes to check your understanding.
Example Gold Standard Evidence Syntheses in Education:
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"For over 60 years, ERIC has sought out the highest quality education research and shared that information with over 14 million users annually. Following the award of the most recent ERIC contract, IES and the ERIC team conducted an analysis of the recency, coverage, and operating status of our current sources of content. Based on that analysis, will no longer index 159 sources (58 journals and 101 non-journals). More than 1,800 sources, including 1,215 journals and 608 non-journals, will continue to be indexed. Visit our listings of journals and non-journals to view these updates." |
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