Teaching with Technology Resources: Search Tools, Indexes, Databases

Map Your Own Course

Helpful tools and search directories

• Understanding Search Utilities http://carbon.cudenver.edu/~mryder/help_data/search.html
• Searching for Information: Concepts and Tools http://www.valpo.edu/library/user/searching.html
• The Spider's Apprentice: A Helpful Guide to Web Searching http://www.monash.com/spidap.html
• Yahoo! > Education > Higher Education http://dir.yahoo.com/Education/Higher_Education/
• Yahoo! > Education > Instructional Technology http://dir.yahoo.com/Education/Instructional_Technology/
• Links2Go: Educational Technology http://www.links2go.com/topic/Educational_Technology

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Scholarly Internet Resource Collections

• Infomine http://infomine.ucr.edu/
• Scout Report http://scout.cs.wisc.edu/report/sr/current/
• Librarians' Index to the Internet http://lii.org/
• BUBL Information Service http://bubl.ac.uk/

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Subscription Indexes, Abstracts, and Databases
Not all of these are available on every campus. Check with your library to see what resources are available to you locally. This non-comprehensive listing is meant merely for your increased awareness of various options.

ABI/Inform	ERIC
Academic Search Elite	Higher Education Abstracts
Academic Universe	Information Science Abstracts
Applied Science & TechnologyAbstracts	Internet & Personal Computing Abstracts
Computer Abstracts	Library and Information Science Abstracts
Computer & Information Systems Abstracts	Library Literature
Education Abstracts	Psychological Abstracts
Education Index	PsycINFO
Education Technology Abstracts

Helpful subject terms/phrase used to search indexes and databases

computer assisted instruction	computer literacy
computer uses in education	computers
educational innovation	educational technology
higher education	information literacy
information technology	instructional design
instructional development	instructional effectiveness
instructional innovation	technological literacy
technology

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Open-Access Indexes and Databases
Many of these resources are sponsored by well-known organizations and associations. There are also listings of articles within different organization and association sites. You may access many of them on another TWT resources page, Journals and Publications.

Educators' Desk Reference (replaces the ERIC Database) http://www.eduref.org/

Instructional Technology Connections http://carbon.cudenver.edu/~mryder/itcon.html

EDUCAUSE Information Resources Library http://www.cumrec.org/asp/doclib/

InTRO: Instructional Technology Research Online http://www.gsu.edu/~wwwitr

Explorations in Learning & Instruction: Theory into Practice Database http://tip.psychology.org/

Doctoral Research in Educational Technology: A Directory of Dissertations, 1977-2004 http://cortland.edu/education/dissdir/

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