This document contains slides from a presentation about accessing library resources to support teaching and learning. It discusses the library's book collections, access to electronic resources and journals, and databases for finding journal articles. It provides guidance on developing effective search strategies, demonstrates sample database searches, and identifies resources for requesting materials not held in the local institution.

1. Disciplinary Thinking – Textual
Practices
Library resources: teaching and learning
Adapted from a presentation
by Ruth Russell - ruth.russell@ucl.ac.uk
NOTE: References to UCL have been replaced by place-holder text, in square brackets and coloured red, e.g. [institution
name]. You can either replace the placeholder with text relating to your institution or delete it and the surrounding text.

2. Presentation overview
resentation covers
• Book collections
• Access to electronic resources
• Print & Electronic Journals
• Databases for finding journal articles
• British Education Index
• Web of Science
• Other databases

3. Book collections
[This slide gives the locations of relevant
collections of books, in the institutional library
and other libraries close by].

4. Access to e-resources
ost electronic resources can be accessed on or
off campus
he best route to these is via the library website
ou will need your userid to log in

5. Journals
ost education journals available in electronic format
earch the Library catalogue: [URL]
• May be able to link to the full text journal
-journals list is at [URL]
• Can filter the list to look at journals in particular
subject collections
irectory of Open Access Journals:

6. Discovering and rating journals
ournal Citation Reports (JCR) is a database which
allows you to view lists of journals in various
disciplines
he database also allows you to rate these journals
according to various criteria
ask: use JCR to find out which journal in the
Education & Educational Research subject category
is the highest rated according to impact factor

7. Search Strategy
hink about the terms you use
• Are there alternative phrases?
• Use truncation and wildcard symbols (*, ?)
ink search terms:
AND, NOT to narrow
OR to broaden
se “quotation marks” to search for phrases

8. Search strategy illustrated
Teaching Learning
Only finds articles containing
both teaching and learning
Finds articles containing
either teaching or learning
Finds articles which do
contain the term teaching
but do not also contain the
term learning

9. Example Search
ddressing student diversity in e-learning
delivery for higher education
ossible key concepts (remember synonyms,
alternative words)
• Diversity or cultural difference*
AND
• E-learning or online learning or virtual learning
AND

10. Bibliographic databases
ibliographic databases index journal articles
bstracts often included
llow searching content in a range of journals
nly high quality scholarly writing is included
ption to download search results e.g. to reference
management software

11. Database Demonstrations
Always access via the library databases page +
URL]
ritish Education Index
• Provides details about the contents of various
literature sources including journals, reports and
conference material
• Can be searched alongside other education
databases (ERIC and Australian Education Index)

12. Searching ERIC
Video demonstration
From University of Toronto. Does not assume you are
familiar with database searches:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_IrWC96tVi4
NOTE: It is addressed to University of Toronto students
and shows the link to ERIC on the institutional website.

13. Task
o apply your database searching skills:
se either British Education Index OR Web of
Science to start searching for articles on a topic
of your choice.
mail yourself a list of the references you find

14. Other databases for education
COPUS large multidisciplinary database
BSS an index of literature in the social sciences
and related disciplines
exis UK (formerly Lexis Nexis Executive) full text
database of news articles

15. Material not held in the institution
• [link] can be used to check journal holdings at
[your institution] and other universities
• You can search across library catalogues with
COPAC or ULS
• Books and journal articles can be requested via
inter-library loan: [Give details or further
information].

16. Help
Insert information relevant to the
institution, e.g.
nquiry Desks
ubject librarian
ore tips on searching bibliographic
databases

17. Learning Resource Metadata
Field/Element Value:
Title Disciplinary Thinking – Textual Practices: Library Resources
Description Slides that could be used to introduce institutional routes to education literature
Module Textual Practices
Subject HE - Education
Author Ruth Russell; Jane Hughes; Colleen McKenna: HEDERA 2012
Owner The University of Bath
Audience Educational developers in accredited programmes & courses in higher education.
Issue Date 20/04/2012
Last updated Date 28/07/2012
Version V1
PSF Mapping A5, K2, K3, V3
License Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 UK: England & Wales License.
ukoer, omac, education, higher education, discthink, disciplinary thinking, hedera,
Keywords university of bath, research-teaching relationships, textual practices, teaching and
learning, scholarship of teaching, information literacies
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