Welcome to the library resource guide for Professor Schoorman's Fall 2024 EDG 7938 Foundations of Curriculum Inquiry course. The resources contained in this guide will provide you with a starting point for finding information on the topic of your choice. Use the tabs above to access information. Good luck and happy researching!

Following this session you should know how to:

• Use the FAU Library Catalog to locate books and other materials owned by the Library
• Develop a search strategy using thesauri, Boolean operators, truncation and wildcards
• Understand the difference between electronic journals and databases 
• Become aware of and use the most important databases for conducting literature reviews in the discipline of education
• Search most of the Libraries' resources at one time using OneSearch.
• Use "Find it @ FAU" to connect to full-text articles in different databases 
• Determine if a periodical is peer-reviewed 
• Locate other authors that have cited an article of interest, and rank articles by number of times cited using Web of Science
• Cite your sources
• Locate information about Citation Tools / Citation Managers
• Get additional help

Summer 2025 Semester Hours (Boca Raton):

See our library hours for all campuses at the link above, including any changes to hours during the semester.

It's easy to reach us! 

• Ask a Librarian (Available 24/7)
• Lib2Go resources
• Subject Specialist/Liaisons
• Request a Research Consultation 
• Retrieve Books (Boca Raton)

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Graduate students enrolled at Florida Atlantic University, as well as students within the Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine, now have an exclusive lounge in the Wimberly Library to study, relax or just hang out, thanks to the generosity of the University Club of the FAU Foundation.

The Graduate Study Lounge, is located in LY-245 and is tucked away on the west end of the second floor with access controlled by a student’s Owl Card. The lounge opens to a multi-purpose room that is set up with four side-by-side computer stations and collaboration space with a rolling conference table and matching chairs.

Through a statewide initiative in coordination with FALSC and other institutions of the Florida College System and State University System libraries, the FAU Libraries is transitioning e-resources authentication from EZproxy to OpenAthens.

OpenAthens is a gateway service that provides access to the FAU Libraries' licensed electronic resources. For the first time, you will have access to the Libraries’ e-resources without needing to be on the Libraries’ website! You can use an Internet search engine like Google or go directly to a publisher’s website to access the Libraries “Athenized” e-resources via FAU Single Sign-On (SSO)!  

• More information can be found here OpenAthens 

• How To Use OpenAthens  

• OpenAthens Video Tutorials