Adult & Higher Education Research Guide: Overview
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Resources
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Citation Guides & Style ManualsQuick guides to the most commonly used citation styles with links to examples of subject specific styles.
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Zotero citation managerFree application that runs off of Firefox and helps you manage your research.
Introduction
A few things to keep in mind as an AHE student
- Whether you do research on or off-campus, we can usually get you the research materials you will need.
- Librarians are happy to help, it is what we do! Contact us using the information on the right.
- We provide citation assistance in addition to finding article and books.
Graduate Students have the option of having library materials delivered to a department mailbox or to a home address. These delivery services are available with the set-up of a pre-established delivery location. Please contact the Interlibrary Loan Department at 360-650-3076 or email ILLiad@wwu.edu to discuss your options.
Three Flavors of ERIC
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ERIC [EBSCO]The world's largest database of education research. Includes bibliographic entries, full-text articles, and a thesaurus of education-related terminology that is used to tag entries in the database.
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ERIC [U.S. Department of Education]The world's largest database of education research. Includes bibliographic entries, full-text articles, and a thesaurus of education-related terminology that is used to tag entries in the database.
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ERIC (Proquest)The Proquest version tends to be good at giving relevant results, but has less direct access to the full text of articles than Ebsco.
ERIC is the best education database for most education research topics. As a Western student, there are a few ways to access ERIC. Each one has slightly different features, but indexes the same sources.
Librarian Subject Team

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Social Science & Professional Programs Team Librarians:
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Subject Guide

Email | Web Form
Social Science & Professional Programs Team Librarians:
Sylvia Tag
Elizabeth Stephan
Emily Spracklin
Team Website: