Basic academic research technique for finding information on specific topics within the Multicultural Education subject area.

1. Academic Research
from
the
KU Libraries
Multicultural
Education
Lissa Lord llord@ku.edu
July 6, 2011

2. KU Libraries Homepage
http://www.lib.ku.edu
Dissertation Research Blog
http://dissertationresearch.blogspot.com
Twitter at the Regents Center Library
http://twitter.com/librarykuec
Regents Center Library Homepage
http://www.lib.ku.edu/RCLibrary/

3. If you know nothing about something
take a look at Wikipedia.
My search
multicultural education

7. Because I knew
nothing about how to
get a topic for my
paper I tried
Wikipedia and
searched:
Multicultural Education
Within one of the
links I found in the
Wikipedia article
selected Journals
and Newspapers
American Indian
Culture and Research
Journal
It costs money to
get an article from
this journal
This is why we
have KU Libraries
Ask!

8. From Wikipedia to the Library:
1. How do we find the journal
American Indian Culture and Research
Journal?

9. http://www.lib.ku.edu

10. American Indian Culture and Research Journal

13. If we came to the KU
Libraries first how would
we find articles on the
subject of Multicultural
Education?

15. multicultural education
AND legislation

17. multicultural education AND legislation
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18. Remember:
ERIC and
Wilson OmniFile
are both
recommended
databases for
Education

21. Library Catalog: where are the books

22. Library Catalog for How to find a book

24. Web Retrieve

25. Want the book sent to EC?

29. Google Scholar
now that you know how databases work

30. To search
Google Scholar,
go through the
library so that
the databases
are connected
to your Google
search

34. Quick!
Citation

36. Questions?
Lissa Lord
llord@ku.edu