General Information:
Education Source covers such topics as elementary education, government funding, higher education, multicultural education, teaching methods, and special education. The database indexes and abstracts articles from approximately 770 periodical titles, of which more than 350 are full-text, and more than 50 journals provide coverage of special education.
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Search Tips:
Advanced Search – this is the default screen
- Type in your search terms, using AND, OR, NOT from the drop-down menu to combine search terms
- If you know a specific field you wish to search, you can choose the search field from the optional
- drop-down list. Otherwise, you should use the default fields to allow the database to search multiple fields and related terms.
- You can place a number of limits on your search. When you place a limit on your search you will not see any records that do not match your limits.
- Try using the Thesaurus if you are not getting the results you need. It may help provide a better search strategy by suggesting different search terms.
Using the Thesaurus – click the Thesaurus button that is in the top part of the screen to help you locate subject headings.
- Using the Thesaurus does not mean that you cannot use keyword searching. But if you are having difficulty finding results, it can be very useful to know the subject headings.
Result List
- You can narrow your results by clicking on a subject term in the box in the left hand column.
- Click on the link with the article title to open a record and read the abstract and full text (if Full Text HTML is available) of the record.
- Click in the Scholarly (Peer Reviewed) Journals box to locate only that type of article. Some articles are available in both HMTL and PDF formats. PDF articles are scanned from the print journal and always contain all tables and graphics. HTML articles are faster to download.
- If full-text is not available, clicking on the Get Full Text button will identify other UCF databases that may provide access to the full-text of the article
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You can print, save or email an article and/or citation. Some of the Tools included are: Cite, Permalink, and Add to Folder. Always use the internal print, email, and save buttons; DO NOT use your browser's print function (i.e., do not go to file > print at the top of your screen).
For More Help:
Online help instructions are available by clicking on Help on the top right side of the screen.