TCE 191: Find Articles
Important Note
Please be sure to review the information on the Before You Search! tab on the left menu before you begin searching in the tools listed on this tab. The Before You Search! tab explains what a "peer reviewed" article is and how to tell when you have found one. It also gives tips for building more effective searches. There are brief videos and tutorials that explain how to choose the best keywords, refine your searches, and evaluate the information you find.
ERIC, Education FT, Education Research Complete, & Professional Development Collection
You’ll need to enter your Miami Unique ID and password to access these resources from off-campus.
You can search all of these databases together by clicking the title of one of them and then following the instructions below.
Above the search boxes, click the link for the database you are currently using. A new screen will appear with a list of all the Ebsco databases available at MU. Place a check in the box next to each of the databases you want to add from the list. Click the "Select" button at the bottom of the list.
When entering your search terms, try putting your topic in the top box and entering best practices in the second box. As you begin typing best practices you'll see that a dropdown menu appears offering several autocomplete suggestions. Select the "best practices or guidelines or evidence-based practice" option. The results list will be made up of articles that give current best practices regarding your topic so that you know what policies and procedures you will be improving on for your project.
When your results list appers, make sure your results are actually current by adjusting the publication date range.
After you click on a blue article title in your results list, you will be taken to a new page with more detailed information about that specific article. This often includes an abstract, or summary, of the article viewable by scrolling down the page. Reading the abstract is a quick way to determine whether the article answers your research question or not. If it does, you should scroll back to the top of the page and look for buttons that say "PDF Full Text" or "Download" to read the entire article.
Selecting Articles and Locating Full Text
See additional information about an article by clicking on its title.
- Scroll down the page to read the abstract to get a better feel for what the article is about.
- If you want the whole article after reading the abstract, look for an Access now
or Access options
button in the light gray box at the top of the page. (See screenshot at the bottom of the box) - If there is a Find It!
button click to search for the full text beyond PsycINFO. On the new screen that opens, click Sign in on the yellow bar to see options for accessing the article. This might be a link to the full text or you may need to select Request Article from Interlibrary Loan (or ILL), which instructs the library to find a copy for you from another library that subscribes to the journal. The library can usually find a copy, but this can take up to a week, so ILL is not a good option if you need an article right away.
For each article, there is a toolbar of icons at the top right of the screen. Clicking these will allow you to:
Temporarily save the article during your current session. If you close your browser, these items will be lost.
Cite the article in a variety of citation formats.
Permanently save the article in a project folder in Ebsco. To use this feature, you will need to first register for a free Ebsco account.
Share the article to your Google Drive, OneDrive, or with anyone using the "Create link" option
There is also a second way to download the article via this toolbar
