Education Full-text User Guide
What is Education Full-text?:
Education Full-text is a database (index) that contains citations and sometimes full text to articles in over 400 education-related journals. For articles written before 1994, Education Full-text contains only citations (author, title, journal, date of publication) and not abstracts (summaries of the articles). In 1994, Education Full-text began adding abstracts; in 1996, Education Full-text began adding full text. Unlike ERIC, Education Full-text tends to index journal issues cover to cover. If you are looking for book reviews, letters to the editor, or small articles, Education Full-text is a better tool than ERIC.
Searching Education Full-text:
To access Education Full-text, go to the UW-Madison Libraries homepage and click on E-Resource Gateway. Click on the letter 'E'. Scroll down the list and click on Education Full-text.
To search Education Full-text, enter your search terms in the search boxes. By default, searches are narrowed using 'and' in the drop-down menu. You can also broaden a search by selecting 'or' from the drop-down menu.
Ex: problem solving 'and' elementary education
Ex: group work 'or' cooperative learning
To the left of each search result, you'll find one or more icons: a blue box with lines in it, a red box with the Adobe Acrobat symbol in it, or a green box with books in it.
Click on the blue box with lines to access the article in HTML full text.
Click on the red box with the Adobe Acrobat symbol to open a PDF version of the article.
Click on the green box with the books in it to search MadCat for that journal title. This is especially useful when the article is not available in HTML or PDF, because you can find which UW Madison library has the print version, and/or which databases index that journal in full text.
A few tips on searching Education Full-Text:
#1: Marking records is a convenient method of selecting records you may want to e-mail, save, or print. To mark a record, click in the box that appears to the left of each record. When in doubt, mark the record. It's easier to unmark a marked record than it is to try and remember where you came across a citation that you now want to print out. Don't wait long before printing/emailing/saving your marked records.
#2: Use the "Thesaurus" button on the left side of the screen. Search for official subjects (descriptors) that may interest you. You can click on the descriptors to retrieve citations that have that descriptor.
#3: The "Search History" button on the left side of the screen keeps track of your searches. You can combine previous searches; you can also combine a previous search with a new term.