Course Name: Research Methods, Public Policy 220
Librarian: Janice Mathews, janice.mathews@uconn.edu
Class Webpage: /campuses/hartford/classes/pubpol220.htm

Research Strategy

Learn to use your library home page, . Customize the page to Public Policy and Greater Hartford Campus. The libraries' many resources are available at the homepage. These resources include a vast array of electronic databases; thousands of full text journals, magazines and newspapers, and numerous other resources and library services. The following are linked under "Online Resources" on the home page:

• HOMER to find books and journal titles held by the libraries
• Databases to find resources that will direct you to articles
• eJournals to track down journals that are available online
• Document Delivery/Interlibrary Loan (DD/ILL) to request books and articles that are not on your campus

Resources for Public Policy

Searching for Articles

Possible search terms: evaluation, program evaluation, evaluation methods, program effectiveness

To located specific articles on your topic, access databases from the library homepage. UConn subscribes to over 240 Web-Based databases. Databases can be accessed alphabetically and by subject.

Social Sciences Citation Index is a multidisciplinary database covering the journal literature of the social sciences. It indexes more than 1,725 journals spanning 50 disciplines

ABI/INFORM has full text articles from 1800 journals covering business, finance, management and related functional areas.

Eric indexes scholarly journals and magazines in all areas of education, from early intervention (birth to age three), preschool, K-12 (public and private), and higher education. Includes bilingual, special, gifted, and computer education. Also includes child development, classroom techniques, computer education, counseling and testing, administration, and library science.

Sociological Abstracts searches the international literature in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences. The database provides abstracts of journal articles and citations to book reviews drawn from over 1,809 serials publications, and also provides abstracts of books, book chapters, dissertations, and conference papers.

For information on the difference between journals and magazines click here: Journals & Magazines: How to Tell the Difference.

Using the Library From Home