General Information:
Professional Development Collection provides a highly specialized collection of nearly 520 high quality education journals, including 350 peer-reviewed titles, compiled for professional educators. The database also contains more than 200 educational reports. Full text to some sources dates back to 1965.
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 Select a Field drop-down list. Otherwise, you should use the default fields, which include all authors, all subjects, all keywords, all title info and all abstracts.
- You can place a number of limits on your search by selecting the options provided under “Limit your results”. When you place a limit on your search you will not see any records that do not match your limits.
- Click on Add row to add up to 12 rows if you need to add additional search terms. To delete a row, click the Remove Row link.
Visual Search – click the link Visual Search beneath the basic or advanced search box to have your search results presented in an interactive, visual map
- Type in your search terms in the search box
- Your results will come in a visual map organized by topics.
- Click on the topics to see subtopics. All of the results for each topic, subtopic, etc. are shown at the bottom of the column.
- Click on a rectangle to bring up a Summary of a record which will appear on the right hand side of the screen
- Click on the More link at the bottom of the abstract to see full text (if available).
Result List
- The Result List Screen has three columns – Narrow your results, All Results, and Limit your results.
- You can narrow your results by clicking on a subject term in the box on the left hand column.
- You can limit your results using the date slide bar, full text, scholarly (peer-reviewed) or other database limiters in the right hand column.
- The Preferences link below the search boxes will provide you with control over the look of your search result list and the print, email, save features selection.
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You can print, save or email an article and/or citation. 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). You can print, email or save each article separately, or you can add articles to an electronic folder and print, email or save everything at once. If you use the Cite this Article feature, verify with another source that the citation produced is accurate.
For More Help:
There is a Help link in the upper-right corner of every page with general searching information. Each tab also has a link right beside the search box with more specific information.