Education: A Sage Collection includes the full text of 26 peer-reviewed journals published by Sage and participating societies distinguished by up to 36 years of backfiles, and encompasses over 7,000 articles.

It covers such subject areas as: Adult and Continuing Education, Educational Administration, Educational Policy, Elementary and Primary Education, High School and Secondary Education, Higher Education, International Education, Leadership, Measurement and Testing, Multicultural Education and Diversity, Professional Development, Teaching and Instruction, Teaching Methods.

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• Searching is not case sensitive, so you don't need to use capital letters. Multiple words entered into the search field (e.g., health nutrition), will be treated as a phrase. To find all words entered in the search field, you must separate words with AND. To find any words entered in the search field, you must separate words with OR.

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• To export citations to RefWorks, first mark the citations you wish to export by clicking in the box on the left side of the page by each citation you want to export. Then click on the red RefWorks logo located above the citation list. Make sure to have your pop-up blocker disabled and to wait to log into RefWorks until prompted to.

Where is it: Go to the UNLV Libraries' home page. Select the Articles and Databases tab, click on the A-Z List of Databases and then on the letter E and select Education: A Sage Collection.

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The Education Full Text database includes articles with page images, plus abstracts, and indexing. Full text coverage starting in 1996, indexing from 1983 and abstracts from 1994. Education Full Text includes comprehensive coverage of an international range of English-language periodicals, monographs and yearbooks. Full text of articles, with indexing cover to cover, from hundreds of journals. Coverage includes about 79 journals (37 with full text) not covered by ERIC's CIJE. Included are up-to-date subject headings keeping pace with today's changing issues and terminology. Graphical content also adds a key dimension to research--PDF page images accompany full text articles, offering both words and images. Subjects covered include: Adult Education, Arts, Athletics, Comparative Education, Competency-based Education, Computers in Education, Continuing Education, Educational Technology, Elementary Education, Government Funding, Higher Education, Instructional Media, Language Arts, Library Science, Literacy Standards, Multicultural/Ethnic Education, Parent-Teacher Relations, Prayer in Public Schools, Preschool Education, Religious Education, School Administration, Science and Mathematics, Secondary Education, Special Education, Student Counseling, Teacher Education, Teacher Evaluation, Teaching Methods, Vocational Education.

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• To conduct a search, select one or more databases from the database selection area. Click Close Database Selection Area or Open Database Selection Area, as appropriate. Enter a word or phrase in the first text-entry area and make the appropriate selection from the as: drop-down list.


• When using the All - Smart Search query do not use truncation symbols or other special characters. The Wilson All - Smart Search query will automatically search those options. Simply type the word or phrase that you are interested in and click Start. The search results will automatically show the most relevant articles at the top of the set when the Sort by Relevance option has been selected. (For examples of the All - Smart Search query, Keyword searches, Bound Phrase searches, and fielded searches, see Construct a Search Query.)


• It is possible to export citations to the refworks citation manager program to create a bibliography. To do this mark the items from your search you wish to export. Then click on get marked. After you have a list of the items you want to export, click on exporting/citing in the blue bar at the top of the page. Then click on Refworks Direct Exportation tool and export. It is important to have your pop-up blocker turned off when exporting items. Do not log into Refworks until prompted to.


• To customize the way your records are displayed click the Customize Display button located at the top of each screen, to make selections for defining how the records are displayed. To modify the display of records:
  1. Select the label display, the number of results shown on each screen, and whether or not you want to see a Brief or Full Display.
  2. Select how you want records sorted: by date, relevance, or some other field from the drop-down window. Select the sort order of the retrieved records.
  3. Select the Interface Language (for primary screens - Basic Search, Advanced Search, Browse, Thesaurus, Print Email Save and Exporting/Citing). Also select the color of the interface, if desired.
  4. Check the field options you would like to include in your results. Click to uncheck any checked fields you prefer not to include, and/or check fields you wish displayed.
  5. Apply the desired fields to the Custom Settings area, as desired.
  6. Click Save Changes in the bottom taskbar to confirm.

  You can change these options at any time during the search session. When you click Save Changes or Default Settings, you will return to your previous screen.
  

Where is it: Go to the UNLV Libraries' home page http://www.library.unlv.edu. Select the Articles and Databases tab, click on the A-Z List of Databases and then on the letter E and select Education Full Text.

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Professional Development Collection, designed for professional educators, provides a highly specialized collection of nearly 520 high quality education journals, including nearly 350 peer-reviewed titles. This database also contains more than 200 educational reports. In addition to full text, indexing and abstracts are provided for more than 700 journals.

Examples of titles offered in Professional Development Collection include: Booklist, Curriculum Administrator, Education, Education Digest, Educational Leadership, High School Journal, Journal of Education, Journal of Educational Research, Journal of Learning Disabilities, Phi Delta Kappan, Reading Teacher, School Library Journal, and many others. The majority of full text titles included in the database are available in native (searchable) PDF, or scanned-in-color.

Full text information in the Professional Development Collection dates as far back as 1965. Professional Development Collection is one of the Ebscohost family of databases.

Search Tips:

• To restrict your search retrieval to scholarly/peer reviewed articles use the click box under the green refine search tab in the middle of the search page.

• To export citations to RefWorks to create a bibliography, first save them to a folder by clicking on the word add on the right side of the page next the citation you want to export. When you have saved the citations you want, click where it says folder has items near the top of the page. Once you are in the folder, first click on select all and then on export. Then select Direct Export to RefWorks and click on save. You will then be directed to the RefWorks login page. It is important to wait until prompted to login to your RefWorks account and to have your popup blocker turned off.

• It is possible to use wildcards and truncation to expand your search results. Truncation is represented by an asterisk (*). To use truncation, enter the root of a search term and replace the ending with an *. EBSCOhost finds all forms of that word. For example, type comput* to find the words computer or computing. The wildcard is represented by a question mark ?. To use the wildcard, enter your search terms and replace each unknown character with a ?. EBSCOhost finds all citations of that word with the ? replaced by a letter. For example, type ne?t to find all citations containing neat, nest or next. EBSCOhost does not find net because the wildcard replaces a single character.

Where is it: Go to the UNLV Libraries' home page http://www.library.unlv.edu. Select the Articles and Databases tab, click on the A-Z List of Databases and then on the letter P and select Professional Development Collection.

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