Curriculum & Instruction


Teaching Professor

Provides online access and updates to this newsletter that helps college faculty improve their teaching, share best practices, and stay current on the latest pedagogical research. Includes articles and practical, evidence-based insights, and advice, along with information on: improving student learning; designing effective activities and assignments; energizing and re-inspiring yourself in mid- career; promoting academic integrity; responding to course evaluations and feedback; dealing with difficult students; getting students to read what’s assigned.

TexShare upgraded MAS Ultra to MAS Complete.

Web of Science. Core Collection (Archives, 1900-1969)

Added the archives (1900-1969) for the Social Science Citation Index and the Science Citation Index.

NDLTD

Provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD), this resource is building a comprehensive gateway to all doctoral and master-level theses and dissertations, many openly accessible, by harvesting the information from repositories throughout the world.

SAGE Research Methods 

Assists researchers, faculty and students, by allowing them to search for methods concepts and to understand a particular method or identify a new method. This tool helps the researcher design research projects, conduct their research, and write up their findings.Please provide us with feedback on this resource.

Trial expires on Thursday, October 15, 2015.

SAGE Research Methods Cases 

Provides a collection of case studies on social research designed to help understand abstract methodological concepts.Please provide us with feedback on this resource.

Trial expires on Thursday, October 15, 2015.

Web of Science Core Collection

The Baylor Libraries recently acquired additional backfiles for this resource, moving the years of indexed content to 1965 to present for the Science Citation Index and the Social Sciences Citation Index.  Previously, the indexed content was 1970 to present).

Web of Science. Current Contents Connect

Contains table of contents and bibliographic information from scholarly journals and books since 1998 to present in the areas of Agriculture, Biology & Environmental Sciences; Social & Behavioral Sciences; Clinical Medicine; Life Sciences; Physical, Chemical & Earth Sciences; Engineering, Computing & Technology; Arts & Humanities; Business Collection; Electronics & Telecommunications Collection. Includes Basic Search (by topic topic, title, author, publication), Advanced Search, Browse Journals. Limitable by facets. Web of Science

American Doctoral Dissertations

A digital version of  the only comprehensive record of dissertations accepted by U.S. universities during coverage dates. Includes those universities that did not send their dissertations to UMI.  Taken from the print index, Doctoral Dissertations Accepted by American Universities 1933-1955 and provides full page images of the original print index. May be searched by author, title, subject and university.  Beware that when Ebsco says PDF full text it is not full text of the dissertation but full text of the entry in Doctoral Dissertations Accepted by American Universities which is only a brief bibliographic record.

ProQuest Research Companion

Developed by writing instructors and librarians, this resource consists of nine Learning Modules and seven interactive tools – designed to automate the basic parts of the research process. The multimedia-based learning modules engage students to think more critically and creatively about their research, while other interactive tools help students navigate through the research process more quickly to spend more time on the research that interests them most. ProQuest Research Companion adapts to all devices –- laptops, tablets, and smartphones.

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