secrets of advanced database searching for education

event date: 
friday, november 8, 2024 - 10:00am to 11:00am est
event location: 
online
event contact name: 
gisella scalese
event contact e-mail: 

bring your questions, frustrations, examples to this session on advanced search skills. we will share our tips for effective database searching. whether you are wondering how you could have done it better, you are in the middle of an extensive literature search or you are planning to research an in-depth topic, this session can help.

the focus will be on searching education databases including eric, education source, cbca.

participants will learn about:

  • search syntax
  • subject headings
  • field searching
  • saving results and search strategies
  • translating strategies across databases

note: this session will be held online via zoom. a confirmation with a link to the session will be emailed to you after registration.