LibGuides: Higher Education Administration: Getting Started

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Welcome

Welcome to the Higher Education Administration Research Guide for students in University of Wyoming's Higher Education Administration graduate programs. This guide creates a brief overview of resources related to the subject covered within the program.

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UW Libraries QuickSearch: includes the collections of the University Libraries, UW Law Library, and the American Heritage Center. Searches almost everything.

Use this QuickSearch link to search Books, E-Books & Media.

Lastly, use this QuickSearch link to search Course Reserves.

Interlibrary Loan: UW students, faculty and staff can request books, journal volumes, journal articles and other materials, regardless of whether it is available in the UW Libraries, online or in libraries around the world. A free service! Interlibrary Loan link.

If you go no further: best bets for education research

ERIC [Educational Resources Information Center] (Ebscohost) This link opens in a new window
ERIC (Education Resources Information Center) is an authoritative database of indexed and full-text education literature and resources. ERIC contains more than 1.6 million records and links to hundreds of thousands of full-text documents. It includes records for a variety of source types, including journal articles, books, conference papers, curriculum guides, policy papers and more. In addition, it provides an education-specific thesaurus that includes controlled vocabulary to help users find what they need.
Education Source This link opens in a new window
Database that indexes education literature back to 1929, with full text back to 1996. Adds unique content to merger of Wilson Education Full Text & Retrospective and EBSCO Education Research Complete. On the EBSCOhost platform.
Psycinfo (APA) This link opens in a new window
Major psychology indexing database that covers journals, books, and dissertations back to the 1800s. On the EBSCOhost platform.

Related Education Research Guides

Below is a list of relevant Research Guides related to either different courses within the program or subjects related to the field of Higher Education Administration.

The Chronicle of Higher Education Feed

Higher Education Statistics

Chronicle of Higher Education This link opens in a new window
Higher education full-text weekly newspaper for faculty members and administrators back to 1995. On its own platform.
Data and Statistics About the U.S. This link opens in a new window
Reference portal that allows searching federal agencies for statistics and links to those agencies. On its own platform.
SimplyAnalytics This link opens in a new window
SimplyAnalytics enables users to quickly create professional quality thematic maps and reports using thousands of U.S. demographic, business, health and marketing variables.

IPEDS Data site
The data download site for IPEDS, for those who wish to find comparative data.

Library Search/Retrieval Options

UW Libraries QuickSearch: includes the collections of the University Libraries, UW Law Library, and the American Heritage Center.

Prospector: a unified catalog of twenty-three academic, public and special libraries in Colorado and Wyoming. UW students, faculty and staff can borrow materials from Prospector.