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Getting Started @ The Libraries

10 Things to Get You Started @ The Libraries

Contact me, your EED librarian, if you have any questions - research help, literature searches, instruction requests, suggestions for our collection, etc.
Off campus? Make sure to use the UF VPN to get access to all the Libraries have to offer - journals, books, and databases.
Bookmark the Science Library and follow us Follow @UFMarston
Need articles? Search a database! Find ones appropriate for your research on the Information Resources tab of this guide.
Looking for a book or journal? Search the UF Catalog. You can also renew your items and check your library account using Primo.
Need something UF doesn't own? Use Interlibrary Loan to request it and we'll get it for you using our global library network. More info can be found here.
Need course material? Use Course Reserves to access the textbooks, readings, and other resources for your classes.
Want to keep your references for your paper organized? Learn about options to keep track of your references and generate bibliographies from the Citation Management guide.
More than just books! Reserve a study room or check out all the tech & tools we have to offer.
Need to print or scan? Marston has B&W, Color, and Plotter printers. Print costs range from $0.08/page to $3.00/foot and can be found here: https://print.at.ufl.edu/help/pricing/. Scanners are located on the 1st & 2nd floors.

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Open Ed Resources (OER)

Open Education Resources (OER) are freely available curricular materials. Below is a listing of various repositories.

OER Commons - Engineering
OER initiatives aim to grow a sustainable culture of sharing and continuous improvement among educators at all levels. These are their engineering resources.
MIT Open Courseware - Engineering
Makes the materials used in the teaching of MIT's subjects available on the Web.
Khan Academy - Sciences
Videos across multiple STEM disciplines.
MERLOT - Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching
The MERLOT collection consists of tens of thousands of discipline-specific learning materials, learning exercises, and Content Builder webpages, together with associated comments, and bookmark collections, all intended to enhance the teaching experience of using a learning material.
OpenStax
OpenStax is a nonprofit based at Rice University, specializing in open textbooks for the largest undergraduate courses.
Open Textbook Library
The Open Textbook Library provides a growing catalog of free, peer-reviewed, and openly-licensed textbooks.
The Orange Grove: Florida's Open Educational Repository
Harvested Resources, Open Textbook, Open Courseware and Orange Grove collections are open to everyone.
PhET Interactive Simulations project
Founded in 2002 by Nobel Laureate Carl Wieman, the PhET Interactive Simulations project at the University of Colorado Boulder creates free interactive math and science simulations. PhET sims are based on extensive education research and engage students through an intuitive, game-like environment where students learn through exploration and discovery.
Flickr Creative Commons
Images with for open use via Creative Commons license.

Searching the Literature

Remember: When accessing the Libraries' online resources off-campus make sure you are using the UF VPN.

Finding Books and E-Books

The best way to find books and E-books is to use the Primo search tool. This tool searches across many of our resources, including the UF Libraries catalog. Click on the red buttons below to learn more about how to search in Primo.

Databases

In addition to engineering databases like Compendex (Engineering Village) and IEEE Explore, UF has many education-related databases.

ERIC (ProQuest) This link opens in a new window
This database is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education to provide extensive access to education-related literature. ERIC provides coverage of journal articles, conferences, meetings, government documents, theses, dissertations, reports, audiovisual media, bibliographies, directories, books and monographs.
Education Source This link opens in a new window
Contains thousands of education journal articles, books and education-related conference papers. Coverage spans all levels of education and includes educational specialties such as multilingual education, health education and testing.
**You can search Education Source, & Professional Development Collection together in EBSCO by clicking on the "Choose Database" option**
Professional Development Collection This link opens in a new window
Specialized information for professional educators.
**You can search Education Source, & Professional Development Collection together in EBSCO by clicking on the "Choose Database" option**
Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection This link opens in a new window
Covers Anthropology, Emotional and behavioral characteristics, Mental processes, Observational and experimental methods, and Psychiatry and psychology.
PsycINFO (on EBSCOHost online platform) 1887-Current This link opens in a new window
Databases devoted to peer-reviewed literature in behavioral science and mental health.
Sociological Abstracts This link opens in a new window
Contains international literature on sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences.
Mental Measurements Yearbook with Tests in Print This link opens in a new window
Contains full-text reviews for test products in psychology, education, business and leadership. In addition, it provides a bibliography to all known commercially available English-language tests currently in print.
Scopus This link opens in a new window
Scopus is a multidisciplinary abstract and citation database with a powerful search interface. In addition to records of over 84 million scholarly publications, it also includes author and institutional profiles.
Web of Science This link opens in a new window
This multidisciplinary database covers all STEM and social sciences. A good mix when looking for articles in engineering education!

Conference Papers, Preprints, & Other Documents

ASEE PEER
The American Society for Engineering Education's conference paper repository.
Full text from 1996 - present
EdArXiv
EdArXiv (Education Archive) is a free, open source, non-profit service that allows researchers to post and search working papers, unpublished work, conference materials, and articles under review (preprints).
Frontiers of Engineering Education (National Academy of Engineering)
The Frontiers of Engineering Education (FOEE) Symposium brings together some of the nation’s most engaged and innovative engineering educators in order to recognize, reward, and promote effective, substantive, and inspirational engineering education.

Writing & Citing

Authorship

How is collaborative research defined in your discipline?

It's important to establish roles and authorship at the beginning of a project, and create partnering agreements.
Who should be the authors of your article, and who merits acknowledgement rather than authorship?
Consider the widely-recognized standards of the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE), which state authorship credit should be based upon these criteria.

Authorship Determination Scorecard
The American Psychological Association (APA) has developed an Authorship Determination Scorecard to aid in the decision-making process.

Managing Your References

These programs will save you hours--literally!--of time. Citation management software can store all your articles and reformat them to meet the requirements of just about any journal. Just remember to proofread your works cited (or bibliography or references) page in case a citation wasn't formed properly in a database.

Find out more on our Citation Management guide.

Help with the Writing Process

Check out the Education Writing Resources Guide. The guide has books to help you with:

Publication Venues

Title	Summary	Research Articles	Practice Articles	Peer-Reviewed	Impact & Ranking	Open Access?
Advances in Engineering Education (AEE)	Scope For Authors Find Articles	No	Yes	Yes	SJR	Yes
American Journal of Engineering Education	Scope For Authors Find Articles	Yes	Yes	Yes	N/A	Yes
ASEAN Journal of Engineering Education	Scope For Authors Find Articles	Yes	Yes	Yes	SJR	Yes
Australasian Journal of Engineering Education	Scope For Authors Find Articles	Yes	No	Yes	SJR	Hybrid*
Computer Applications in Engineering Education	Scope For Authors Find Articles	Yes	Yes	Yes	SJR JCR	Hybrid*
European Journal of Engineering Education (EJEE)	Scope For Authors Find Articles	Yes	Yes	Yes	SJR	Hybrid*
Global Journal of Engineering Education (GJEE)	Scope For Authors Find Articles	Yes	Yes	No	SJR	Yes
Higher Education Pedagogies (formerly Engineering Education)	Scope For Authors Find Articles	Yes	Yes	Yes	SJR	Yes
IEEE Transactions on Education	Scope For Authors Find Articles	Yes	No	Yes	SJR JCR	Hybrid*
International Journal of Engineering Education (IJEE)	Scope For Authors Find Articles	Yes	No	Yes	SJR	No
International Journal of Engineering Pedagogy (iJEP)	Scope For Authors Find Articles	Yes	Yes	Yes	SJR	Yes
International Journal for Service Learning in Engineering (IJSLE)	Scope For Authors Find Articles	Yes	Yes	Yes	N/A	Yes
Journal of Engineering Education (JEE)	Scope For Authors Find Articles	Yes	No	Yes	SJR JCR	Hybrid*
Journal of Engineering Education Transformations (JEET)	Scope For Authors Find Articles	Yes	Yes	Yes	SJR	Yes
Journal of International Engineering Education (JIEE)	Scope For Authors Find Articles	Yes	Yes	Yes	N/A	Yes
Journal of Online Engineering Education	Scope For Authors Find Articles	Yes	Yes	Yes	N/A	Yes
Studies in Engineering Education (SEE)	Scope For Authors Find Articles	Yes	No	Yes	N/A	Yes
World Transactions on Engineering and Technology Education (WTE&TE)	Scope For Authors Find Articles	Yes	Yes	Yes	SJR	Yes
WSEAS Transactions on Advances in Engineering Education	Scope For Authors Find Articles	Yes	Yes	Yes	N/A	Yes

* Hybrid journals allow authors to pay an article processing charge (APC) to make their article open access immediately.

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Title	Summary	Research Articles	Practice Articles	Peer-Reviewed	Impact & Ranking	Open Access?
Engineering Studies	Scope For Authors Find Articles - ILL	Yes	Yes	Yes	SJR JCR	Hybrid*
International Journal of Engineering, Social Justice, and Peace	Scope For Authors Find Articles	Yes	Yes	Yes	N/A	Yes
Journal of Women and Minorities in Science and Engineering (JWM)	Scope For Authors Find Articles	Yes	Yes	Yes	SJR	Yes
Research in Engineering Design	Scope For Authors Find Articles	Yes	No	Yes	SJR JCR	Hybrid*
System Dynamics Review	Scope For Authors Find Articles	Yes	Yes	Yes	SJR JCR

* Hybrid journals allow authors to pay an article processing charge (APC) to make their article open access immediately.

Title	Summary	Research Articles	Practice Articles	Peer-Reviewed	Open Access?
American Educational Research Association (AERA)	Info Find Articles				Yes
American Society for Engineering Education Conference Proceedings (ASEE)	Info Find Articles	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
The Collaborative Network for Engineering and Computing Diversity (CoNECD)	Info Find Articles	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
The European Society for Engineering Education (SEFI)	Info Find Articles	Yes	Yes	N/A	Yes
Frontiers in Education (FIE)	Info Browse Proceedings Find Articles	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Society for Personality and Social Psychology	Info Find Presentations				Yes

Want to Learn More About Impact & Ranking?

Use the Research Metrics Guide to find out:

How to locate impact factors for individual journals using tools such as Journal Citation Reports (JCR) and SCImago Journal and Country Rank (SJR)
How to conduct citation analysis by author and by article
New and alternative ways to measure influence and impact of research
Information on traditional and alternative forms of peer review

Identifying Predatory Journals

The issue of predatory journals is on the increase. Here is a short presentation about Navigating Questionable Publishing Practices

Below are some tips from the library to evaluate potential publication venues prior to submitting:

Reputable journals are included in databases such as InCites Journal Citation Reports, PubMed, Compendex, or Web of Science which apply rigorous criteria for scholarship and adherence to best publishing practices.
Check a journal for transparent policies, particularly regarding editorial board composition, peer-review and reasonable author processing fees. Think, Check, Submit offers a great checklist to help you evaluate a journal’s credibility.
Reputable journal publishers tend to be members of organizations such as COPE or OASPA and adhere to these organizations’ recommended practices for ethical, transparent scholarly publishing.

Need help evaluating? Contact me at abuhler@ufl.edu. Perry Collins (perrycollins@ufl.edu), our Copyright and Open Educational Resources Librarian, is also a great resource.

Funding Sources

Government

National Science Foundation

Department of Education

Foundation

Industry

Boeing's Community Engagement Program

Student Funding & Opportunities

Searching Grants.gov

One of the easiest ways to locate federal grant opportunities is searching the opportunities database on www.grants.gov (they even have a mobile app you can use).

Engineering Education & Research: Getting Started @ The Libraries