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Direct linkAoife M. O'Brien; Conor Mc Guckin – Sage Research Methods Cases, 2016
While there are many approaches useful when conducting a literature review (e.g. the narrative literature review, the qualitative literature review, the integrated literature review), the focus of this method in action is to demonstrate the usefulness of the systematic literature review, to researchers at postgraduate level. This case study…
Descriptors: Literature Reviews, Bibliographic Databases, Research Methodology, Barriers
Peer reviewedDunst, Carl J.; Bruder, Mary Beth; Hamby, Deborah W. – Educational Research and Reviews, 2015
Findings from a metasynthesis of 15 research reviews of in service professional development to improve or change teacher content knowledge and practice and student/child knowledge and behavior are described. The research reviews included 550 studies of more than 50,000 early intervention, preschool, elementary, and secondary education teachers,…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Knowledge Level, Correlation
Walters, William H. – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2009
This paper presents a comparative evaluation of Google Scholar and 11 other bibliographic databases (Academic Search Elite, AgeLine, ArticleFirst, EconLit, GEOBASE, MEDLINE, PAIS International, POPLINE, Social Sciences Abstracts, Social Sciences Citation Index, and SocINDEX), focusing on search performance within the multidisciplinary field of…
Descriptors: Search Strategies, Bibliographic Databases, Comparative Analysis, Online Searching
Soules, Aline; Golomb, Liorah – Journal of Electronic Resources Librarianship, 2009
In this article, the authors compared the MLA International Bibliography database (MLAIB) across five vendor platforms to determine how and why seemingly comparable searches produced varying results. A number of tests were conducted using a variety of fields, terms, and parameters, and examples of results are provided. The authors' findings are…
Descriptors: Online Vendors, Navigation (Information Systems), Online Searching, Search Strategies
Pappas, Marjorie L.; And Others – 1996
The ever-increasing availability of electronic information resources online and on CD-ROM presents library media specialists, teachers, and students with a new set of challenges for accessing information. Electronic information resources enable access to nonlinear information, which allows searchers to explore relationships and make connections…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Bibliographic Databases, Computer Mediated Communication, Computer Networks
