INTERNET RESOURCES FOR

ACADEMIC RESEARCH

 

RESEARCH METHODS

The McGraw-Hill Education Super Site: Explains and illustrates the various research methods.

Trochim's Research Knowledge Base Site: Information on research methods and design, hypotheses, ethics in research, deduction and induction, and structure of research. There is a search engine within this site giving access to additional information.

Trochim's Center for Social Research Methods: Specialized site for social research and evaluation.

 Prof. Ender's Research Design and Statistics: A professor's online notes for his research and statistics course - very helpful.

 


FORDHAM UNIVERSITY INFORMATION

Fordham Library: You can use this site to search for Electronic Journals, Education Abstracts, Dissertation Abstracts and locations for these resources. However, unless you are on campus or dial-in directly to Fordham, you may not be able to access some of these resources.

Select "Indexes, Abstracts, Databases" to reach these resources

Electronic Journals

UMI Proquest Direct: This will give index and full text to journals and newspapers on all topics including business.

LEXIS-NEXIS: this will give full text of magazine and newspaper articles on general news, business and legal topics.

Fordham Library Electronic Journal Collection: this will give access to 210 online journals subscribed to by Fordham University.

Education

Eric - ED documents are in the Fordham microfiche collection, EJ documents are journal articles.

Education Abstracts - Full Text

National Center for Education Statistics-Data and Surveys

Dissertations

Dissertation Abstracts International


OTHER RESEARCH RESOURCES

Dr. KPKing’s Education Bookmarks: Links to Internet resources for educators including public access ERIC and Dissertation Abstracts, search engines, conferences and professional associations.

Dr. KPKing's Internet Searching

The WWW Virtual Library

Fordham Office of Research: IRB Information and more

ONLINE DATABASES OF INFORMATION

Buros Mental Measurement Database of Tests and Instruments
World Factbook
U.S. Department of Education
National Center for Education Statistics
U.S. Census Bureau
Whitehouse Government Statistics
Library of Congress Online Catalog
 
LITERACY RESOURCES ONLINE
Literacy Online
International Literacy Institute
Literacy Assistance Center of New York City
Adult Learning Resources in Reading and Writing
National Center on Adult Literacy
 
WRITING RESOURCES
APA Style Guide Useful guide to APA citations and references.
Strunk's Elements of Style: Classic fundamental writing guide.
 


This online resource has been specially designed to serve the needs of
Fordham University's PHD in Language, Literacy and Learning students.

Developed by Drs. Kathy King & Rowland Hughes

If you have sites that would be appropriate to this page,
please
e-mail them to Dr. King and put "PHDS.htm" in the subject of your email.



 

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