New Book: How to screw up in grad school
Submitted on October 28, 2015 - 12:29PM
Not all new books warrant their own blog post. This one however was requested by a faculty member who found the contents helpful and planned to recommend it to his advisees. Even without reading the full text of the book, the list of chapter headings can provide a good reality check for anyone considering or currently in graduate school.
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STEM 'SMART' Workshop Resource Links for K-12
Submitted on August 26, 2014 - 5:04PM
Over the last 3 years, the National Science Foundation has sponsored a series of STEM Smart Workshops which have showcased promising practices and resources in support of effective K-12 STEM Education in schools and programs. We invite you to visit the collection of resources from past meetings.
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ERIC Workaround During Sequester Outage
Submitted on October 4, 2013 - 5:56PM
Due to the Federal Government sequester, my favorite publicly accessible interface to the ERIC aka 'Education Research Information Clearinghouse' database is not working.
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Using RefWorks to Produce a Custom Annotated Bibliography
Submitted on April 22, 2013 - 5:01PM
Annotated bibliographies can be managed in a variety of ways. Based on a recent interaction I will share the steps outlined for an EdD student who wanted to try using RefWorks.
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Biomedical Engineering Design Resources
Submitted on February 27, 2013 - 4:00PM
This article includes a list of biomedical engineering design resources.
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Accessing Chronicle of Higher Education
Submitted on September 24, 2012 - 8:06PM
The question of how to best access the Chronicle of Higher Education frequently gets asked on our Library Help instant message question service, or to me directly. Several options exist with varying degrees of ease and number of steps. I offer you the most common options so you can choose based on your situation and preferences.
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Summary of Recent Orientations for Graduate Students
Submitted on May 29, 2012 - 8:59PM
Many graduate courses for the School of Education have research projects that are coming into focus at this point in the term. Permit me to summarize the points I have covered in recent webinars with a few links and comments.
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Dude. Where's my Dissertation?
Submitted on May 29, 2012 - 6:39PM
Congratulations!
You have completed your PhD/EdD or a masters degree at Drexel University. Assuming that you completed all the steps to take the degree, then you probably found your way here to the Library to drop off hard and soft copies for binding , unless you opted out as described on this FAQ.
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eBrary E-books Now Downloadable
Submitted on November 30, 2011 - 10:26PM
Got a Smart Phone, iPad, Kindle or Nook?
Drexel leases over 32,000 scholarly books from the vendor eBrary that includes titles from a wide variety of disciplines.
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Share ERIC Searches within a Community of Interest
Submitted on August 18, 2011 - 7:58PM
Would you like to share your ERIC searches with a community of people with similar interests? Are you curious about what others are searching--and finding--in your topic area? ERIC is pleased to announce the release of a new Shared Search feature that is currently undergoing beta testing.
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Education Research Beyond Summon
Submitted on June 1, 2011 - 3:01PM
Today's blog posting is an odd testament to the success of the Summon discovery layer on the Library's front page under the 'Articles & More' tab that was introduced one short year ago.
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Question: Do you have these journals?
Submitted on October 14, 2009 - 11:55AM
This is part of an occasional series where I post my responses to typical questions I receive in the hopes that it may be useful to others.
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New Postsecondary Governance Structures Database
Submitted on September 30, 2009 - 10:47AM
Learn more about a revised version of the 1997 State Postsecondary Structures Sourcebook that was converted into an interactive database with information about the post-secondary governance structures in each state.
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How to Cite YouTube & TheHistoryMakers Videos
Submitted on June 5, 2008 - 7:16PM
How do you cite Barack Obama's February 2001 interview on TheHistoryMakers? That's what students in several ENGL 102 & 103 classes are asking after using TheHistoryMakers database of oral history videos of leading African Americans as a source for their term papers.
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Geography Resources for Teacher Ed Students
Submitted on May 7, 2008 - 3:10PM
The world is yours to explore! That's the message these great library resources can help k-12 teachers share with their students.
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New library material matching your Preferred Searches
Submitted on April 14, 2008 - 11:06AM
Drexel University Libraries recently added material to its collection that may be of interest to you based on your preferred search settings.
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Getting Required Course Readings
Submitted on October 1, 2007 - 4:03PM
Feeling thrifty? Ready to go to some extra lengths to get your readings? Already scouted the bookstore, , Amazon and Half.com? Here's the shorthand version of what we tell folks at the Reference Desk.
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