{"id":2,"date":"2020-08-12T09:56:17","date_gmt":"2020-08-12T09:56:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/education-library-guide\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2024-08-12T11:39:20","modified_gmt":"2024-08-12T10:39:20","slug":"sample-page","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/education-library-guide\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting Started"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Purpose of this guide<\/h2>\n<p>This guide is designed to help provide you with subject support identifying the most useful resources for Education.<\/p>\n<div class=\"kent-video-wrapper\"><span class='embed-youtube' style='text-align:center; display: block;'><iframe class='youtube-player' type='text\/html' width='1140' height='672' src='https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fVuSDwy9CAk?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;wmode=transparent' frameborder='0' allowfullscreen='true'><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<p><\/br><\/p>\n<h2>Getting Started using the Library<\/h2>\n<p>The best place to start searching for resources for your course is your online reading list and <a href=\"https:\/\/librarysearch.kent.ac.uk\/client\/en_GB\/kent\">LibrarySearch<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For up to date debates and opinions the following media sources are recommended:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Times Higher Education<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/education\/higher-education\">Guardian Higher Education<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/chronicle.com\/section\/Home\/5\/\">Chronicle of Higher Education (<\/a>USA)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.insidehighered.com\/\">Inside Higher Ed<\/a> (USA)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.universityworldnews.com\/\">University World News<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.duz.de\/\">Duz<\/a> (German HE periodical)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/ripes.revues.org\/\">RIPES<\/a> Revue Internationale de P\u00e9dagogie de l\u2019Enseignement Sup\u00e9rieure (French HE periodical)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Library also has access to a wide range of national and international newspapers.<\/p>\n<h2>Education Databases<\/h2>\n<p>The Library subscribes to a number of subject databases helping you to find academic books and journal articles on your chosen topic.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/chain.kent.ac.uk\/login?url=http:\/\/search.ebscohost.com\/login.aspx?authtype=ip&amp;profile=ehost&amp;defaultdb=bri\">British Education Index<\/a> covering all aspects of education from preschool to higher education<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/chain.kent.ac.uk\/login?url=http:\/\/search.ebscohost.com\/login.aspx?authtype=ip&amp;profile=ehost&amp;defaultdb=eric\">ERIC (Educational Resources Information Center)<\/a> education related literature with an emphasis on the United States<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/chain.kent.ac.uk\/login?url=http:\/\/search.ebscohost.com\/login.aspx?authtype=ip&amp;profile=ehost&amp;defaultdb=eax\">Education Abstracts\u00a0<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/chain.kent.ac.uk\/login?url=http:\/\/search.ebscohost.com\/login.aspx?authtype=ip&amp;profile=ehost&amp;defaultdb=20h\">Educational Administration Abstracts<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/chain.kent.ac.uk\/login?url=http:\/\/search.ebscohost.com\/login.aspx?authtype=ip&amp;profile=ehost&amp;defaultdb=fgh\">Child Development and Adolescent Studies<\/a> database relating to child development<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/chain.kent.ac.uk\/login?url=http:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/db\/crhe\">Research into Higher Education<\/a> survey of international higher education journals including coverage of some books<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>General databases such as <a href=\"http:\/\/chain.kent.ac.uk\/login?url=https:\/\/www.scopus.com\">Scopus<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/chain.kent.ac.uk\/login?url=http:\/\/search.proquest.com\/ibssshell?accountid=7408\">IBSS<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/chain.kent.ac.uk\/login?url=http:\/\/apps.webofknowledge.com\/WOS_GeneralSearch_input.do?highlighted_tab=WOS&amp;product=WOS&amp;search_mode=GeneralSearch\">Web of Science<\/a> are also useful places to search as well as Google Scholar.<\/p>\n<h2>Research Methods<\/h2>\n<p>As well as subject resources the Library also subscribes to resources that can support you in your research. <a href=\"http:\/\/methods.sagepub.com.chain.kent.ac.uk\/\">Sage Research Methods<\/a> provides help with all stages of the research process from design to presenting results. The following websites also provide helpful resources:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncrm.ac.uk\/\">National Centre for Research Methods<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.natcen.ac.uk\/\">National Centre for Social Research<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/conjointly.com\/kb\/\">Research Method Knowledge Base<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Teaching Practice Resources<\/h2>\n<p>Alongside research support the Library also subscribes to <a href=\"http:\/\/chain.kent.ac.uk\/login?url=http:\/\/edtv.alexanderstreet.com\">Education in Video<\/a> a collection of streaming videos for training and developing teachers.<\/p>\n<h2>Online Resources<\/h2>\n<p>As well as the resources that the library subscribes to there is a lot of useful freely available information available on the internet. To help navigate this the library has created a reading list with links to useful organisations and data sources.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Purpose of this guide This guide is designed to help provide you with subject support identifying the most useful resources for Education. Getting Started using &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/education-library-guide\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/education-library-guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/education-library-guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/education-library-guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/education-library-guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/education-library-guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/education-library-guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/education-library-guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/35"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/education-library-guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}