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COUN-530 (Ahia)

This guide is for students enrolled in the Counseling Programs offered by Dr. Ahia in the Department of Graduate Education, Leadership, & Counseling

The Search Begins Here!

Rider University Libraries subscribe to over 190 databases, where you can find citations and obtain access to reliable, quality, and popular and/or scholarly information--newspaper, magazine, and journal articles; white papers; book chapters; and encyclopedic and factual information--as well as streaming music and video.  All educators should definitely become familiar with the databases detailed below, not to mention our Library One Search tool, which cross-searches our library catalog and most of our databases:

Library Databases & Indexes

From the Libraries' home page select the big orange Databases icon. From here you can browse databases by SUBJECT or ALPHABETICALLY.  The following are a few excellent selected education databases that might be helpful in your research. There may be more; check the links above. The truncation symbol for these databases is an asterisk (  *  ). See the search examples below and on the "Searching Tips and Strategies" tab above on this subject guide:

ERIC 

The world’s largest source of education information, this database contains over a million documents and journal articles, with some full text, on education research & practice—see the Search Hints below, AND try comparing the "Basic Search Example" directly below with the "Advanced Search Example" following it, exploring the important differences for a better search result: 

BASIC SEARCH EXAMPLE (using only the ERIC database):

 

NOTE: Let the databases help you limit/refine the search results for you; also, you can try searching several databases at one time in Advanced Search (below): 

ADVANCED SEARCH EXAMPLE (simultaneously searching the ERIC, Academic Search Premier, & PsycINFO databases):