Tag Archives: Guides
Learning and teaching with E-books
At the IOE Learning & Teaching Conference last week I presented a session with two academic colleagues: Esmé Glauert and Clare Bentall. My part of the session was simply a reminder of the availability of ebooks and how to use … Continue reading
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Tagged digital literacies, e-books, Guides, Teaching and Learning conference
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Welcome to the IOE
Welcome to all new students starting at the IOE this term. You’ll find the library on Level 4 of the IOE building off the main concourse. If you’re not able to attend an induction session you’ll find lots of help … Continue reading
Database news
The recent upgrade to the new ProQuest platform has resulted in the following enhancements – Lingering problems with the ERIC thesaurus have now been resolved. A new ‘Education Level’ limit can now be applied within advanced search in ERIC. Direct links … Continue reading
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Tagged British Education Index (BEI), eResources, Guides, Link resolver
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New guides
If you’re new to the IOE and haven’t yet browsed around our library website you may have missed our Guides page. We have guides to all kinds of resources and help with using them and in particular we suggest you have … Continue reading
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Tagged British Education Index (BEI), Guides, induction, IOE staff
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LGBT resource guide now available
The positive response to Sean’s “Queering the school” display inspired us to put together a resource guide covering material available in the IOE library and archive, and pointers to where you can find relevant resources elsewhere If you’re interested, you can pick it up in … Continue reading
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Tagged access, displays, Guides, LGBT, research, resource guide
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A new look for British Education Index
British Education Index, ERIC and Australian Education Index are now available to IOE students and staff on the new ProQuest Professional Platform. Access to over 20 other leading datasets including Applied Social Sciences Index and Abstracts (ASSIA), International Bibliography of … Continue reading
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Tagged British Education Index (BEI), eResources, Guides
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Welcome
Welcome to all our new students starting today and over the next few weeks. If you missed the induction session you can still find out lots about the library and archives by exploring our online tutorial. Distance learners will also … Continue reading
A new guide to Athens and more….
Sadly your Athens username will not take you to a real place but is purely for use in the virtual world, but the resources it provides access to are rich beyond measure. If you haven’t yet tried to access resources … Continue reading
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Tagged access, British Education Index (BEI), e-books, e-journals, Guides
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Doing a dissertation?
Digging, delving and drilling down for that elusive information to create 20,000 fascinating words? If so, for reliable and specific research, you’re going to have to go beyond Google and start digging in databases. As librarians, we usually advise a search … Continue reading
Staying on top of official publications
A recent question regarding the availability or otherwise of the Robbins Report into Higher Education from 1963 in digital form on an education librarians’ mailing list highlighted two excellent resources for finding this sort of material. In a way they … Continue reading
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Tagged access, education, Guides, Official Publications
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