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Locating Professional Research Using the AVL. Amy Wallace. What is the AVL?. Alabama Virtual Library Information resources for Alabama citizens provided by the state legislature. What resources for teachers are available on the AVL?. Full text journal articles Magazines Newspapers - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Locating Professional Research Using the AVL
Amy Wallace
What is the AVL? Alabama
Virtual Library Information
resources for Alabama citizens provided by the state legislature
What resources for teachers are available on the AVL?
Full text journal articles
Magazines Newspapers Research studies Lesson ideas Images and Video
This presentation will Illustrate how to
use the AVL to locate professional research from the comfort of your classroom.
Teach you how to use EBSCOhost.
First we will access the AVL.
Contact Us Last Updated on October 30, 2003
http://www.avl.lib.al.us
Select Campus and Library.
Any Alabama citizen can access the AVL at home with a user name and password that can be obtained at the public library.
All schools and libraries have automatic access.
Select EBSCOhost Web. EBSCOhost Web
(French) (German) (Spanish)
This database contains many full text scholarly journals for research uses.
The next screen will allow you to select databases.
Excellent databases for educators include:
Professional Development Collection Designed for professional educators, this database provides a highly specialized collection of over 500 full text journals, including nearly 350 peer-reviewed titles. Professional Development Collection is the most comprehensive collection of full text education journals in the world.
This multi-disciplinary database offers full text for nearly 1,850 scholarly journals, including nearly 1,300 peer-reviewed titles. Covering virtually every area of academic study, Academic Search Elite offers full text information dating as far back as 1985. This database is updated on a daily basis via EBSCOhost.
Academic Search Elite
ERIC
ERIC, the Educational Resource Information Center contains more than 2,200 digests along with references for additional information and citations and abstracts from over 980 educational and education-related journals.
Notice that each database has additional information and a title list.
Select the databases of interest to you.
Click continue. The next screen allows you to enter
a topic and limit your search.
While searching…
You should Enter a topic. Select full text. Select Scholarly/ Peer reviewed
journals. (If desired.) Select search.
When entering the subject reading and full text:
There were 11,015 results from Academic Search Elite.
Titles included:
Curriculum Influences on Growth in Early Reading Fluency for Students with Academic and Behavioral Risks: A Descriptive Study.
Titles included: The Impact of Comprehensive Reading
Instruction on the Academic and Social Behavior of Students with Emotional and Behavioral Disorders.
Curriculum Influences on Growth in Early Reading Fluency for Students with Academic and Behavioral Risks: A Descriptive Study.
Titles (cont’d) Kindergarten Predictors of First- and Se
cond-Grade Reading Achievement.
Developing Emergent Literacy Skills Through Storybook Reading.
Reading Comprehension Skills of Young Adults with Childhood Diagnoses of Dyslexia.
Searching by Periodical Select basic search. Click on the publication tab. Type in a journal name or browse. Select the journal and browse the
issues.
Select a topic of your choosing.
Choose your limiters.
Hit search and examine all of the results.
Happy searching!!!
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