The databases linked in the boxes below are great starting points for researching your class assignments. If you're having trouble finding articles on your topic, contact Marnie Hampton at hamptonm@pitt.edu for more help.
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ERIC, sponsored by the US Department of Education, is the premier national database of education literature. ERIC covers educational research and literature from 1963 to present, as well as important practitioner materials and news sources. Descriptors are disciplinary terms the ERIC database creators use to identify the major topics covered within a particular article, book or item. Descriptors can suggest other keywords you can use in your searching, or identify a more exact disciplinary term for the concepts you are seeking. Create complex searches by combining multiple keywords. Once you decide on your keywords, you can combine them to create focused complex searches.
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Field Searching: Full ERIC records are made up of field of information -- the title of the item is listed in the Title field, the author’s name is listed in the Author field, etc. You can use these fields when you search by focusing your search for a term to a particular informational field. For instance, if you wanted articles by Benjamin Spock, you could search for Spock in AU Author field. This will give you results where Spock is an author.
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Health and Psychosocial Instruments provides ready access to information on measurement instruments (i.e., questionnaires, etc) in the health fields, psychosocial sciences, organizational behavior, and library and information science.
