Welcome to Joyner Library. We're here to help you get the most out of the library's resources as you move through MATE 6211 online. If you need help at any time do not hesitate to Ask a Librarian.
MATE 6211 consists of readings, reports, and syntheses of research literature on teaching and learning K-12 mathematics.
Finding Books:
From the library homepage at http://www.lib.ecu.edu, go into the Catalog, and search by title, author, or subject. To search by subject try using Library of Congress subject headings for a cleaner search.
Selected relevant Library of Congress subject headings for MATE 6211 include:
Note the title of the book, the collection, and call number, as in this example:
Mathematics -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- United States
Mathematics teachers -- Training of -- United States
If you are able to come into Joyner Library, use the call number charts on the wall by the stairs to determine on which floor books with those call numbers will be found. Students living in Pitt County, even if taking courses online, will have to visit the library personally to check out books. If you are a distance learning student living outside of Pitt County, you can ask that books be mailed to you. See: Joyner Library Services for Our Distance Learning Community
Are there books available full-text electronically?
The library has an increasing number of book titles available electronically. NetLibrary, for example, is a collection of books from various publishers that are available in electronic format. As an ECU student, you have access to a collection of more than 30,000 reference, scholarly and professional books. These are available by searching the library's catalog. For more information see: Using NetLibrary
Finding Articles:
Once on the library's homepage select the Article Databases button on the top tabbed toolbar.
All of the Joyner Library databases can be reached from the Article Databases page. If accessing the databases from off campus you will be asked for your Pirate User ID and password. This is the same as you use for "OneStop" or Blackboard. If you have any problems with remote access, see: How Do I Connect to the Library's Resources From Home?
To search for an article in mathematics education, consider using the following databases:
Education Databases:
ERIC on EBSCO Host ERIC is the premiere indexing and abstracting source for education and related disciplines. The database contains more than 950,000 abstracts of documents and journal articles on education research and practice. Documents include reports, curricular materials, books, conference papers,etc. Increasingly these are available full-text onscreen. For those that are not, print copies are often available in Joyner Library.
Educational Research Complete is the definitive online resource for education research. This massive file offers the world's largest and most complete collection of full text education journals. It is a bibliographic and full text database covering scholarly research and information relating to all areas of education. Coverage: 1866 - Current
Multidisciplinary Databases:
Proquest Research Library Proquest Research Library contains more than 2,600 periodicals in a wide range of subject areas. You may search by specific terms or phrases. Many (although not all) of the articles will be available full-text onscreen.
Academic Search Premier Provides information on a wide range of academic areas including business, computer science, engineering, social sciences, humanities, linguistics, science, education and multicultural topics. It features full text for more than 4,500 journals, and indexes about 8,000 journals including nearly 7,000 peer-reviewed. In addition to indexing and abstracts, searchable references are provided for more than 1,000 Coverage: 1975 - Current
JSTOR JSTOR (Journal Storage Project) is a nonprofit organization whose goals include building a reliable and comprehensive archive of important scholarly journal literature, increasing access to these journals, and helping fill gaps in existing library collections of journal backfiles. To this end, it provides the complete back files of 218 important research journals in the humanities, social sciences and sciences. Journals are scanned, so that they include full page images that look just like the original. JSTOR's agreements with publishers include an updating provision referred to as a "moving wall." The moving wall is a fixed period of time ranging, in most cases, from 2 to 5 years, that defines the gap between the most recently published issue and the date of the most recent issues available in JSTOR.
How can I see articles?
Many of our databases include the full text of articles. In some cases, though, the full text of an article may not be available online in the database you are using due to publishers' restrictions or the prohibitive cost of providing them online. Increasingly, when you search for articles in the library's databases you will see the button on your results list or on the screen showing the citation/abstract of the article.
Serials Solutions is a service offered by Joyner and Laupus Libraries that allows you, at the click of a button, to go from an article citation in one database to a full text copy of that article in another, or to see if a particular article or specific journal is available in full text electronic format. It also allows you to find out if that journal is available in print at either Joyner or Laupus.
What if the article I want is not available full-text online?
If the article is not available online, you can check the Joyner Library catalog or the Laupus Health Sciences catalog to see if it is held in printed form. The button does this for you automatically from within databases. If you live within Pitt County you would need to come to the library to make a copy of the article. If you are a distance learning studentliving outside of Pitt County, you can have articles copied and sent to you, using Interlibrary Lending. See: Getting Articles From Joyner Library
A Word About Using Web Sites for Your Research .........
Many instructors advise you to use the Web wisely and with discernment, because the Web has much that is valuable, but also some material that may not be as authoritative as the instructor prefers you to use for your research. Here are some principles for evaluating what you find on the Web: How Do I Evaluate Websites
