SoTL Resources in your Discipline

To search for SoTL resources you want to start at the library home page: library.mcmaster.ca. This site will connect you to the catalogue, databases, online journals, helpful guides and tutorials. 
 

There are many ways to search for resources in the library, but there are two ways to search the 'catalogue'.

Please check out this Guide to Discovery and Catalogue to better understand what is/how to use the Discovery and Catalogue options
 

The Library subscribes to a number of databases that include SoTL-related articles. 

Try searching: (SoTL OR "Scholarship of teaching and learning") AND (education OR pedagogy OR curriculum or program) - try adding in your specific discipline to the search boxes for targeted results. 

• ERIC (1966 to the present) covers all aspects of education, from preschool to post-secondary and adult education, and all topics within the broad discipline. 
   
• Google Scholar Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: articles, theses, books, abstracts and court opinions, from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities and other web sites. Google Scholar helps you find relevant work across the world of scholarly research. 
   
• JSTOR JSTOR contains fulltext academic journals in the Humanities, Social Sciences, and Sciences. JSTOR provides complete journal backruns from thedate of initial publication up to a date defined, on a publisher by publisherbasis, by a "moving wall". The moving wall is a fixed period of time ranging, inmost cases, from 2 to 5 years, that defines the gap between the most recentlypublished issue and the date of the most recent issues available in JSTOR. 
   
• SAGE Research Methods SAGE Research Methods is a web-based research methods tool that covers quantitative, qualitative and mixed methods. Researchers can explore methods and concepts to help design research projects, understand a particular method or identify a new method, and write up research. Sage Research Methods focuses on methodology rather than disciplines, and is of potential use to researchers from the social sciences, health sciences and other research areas. 
   
• Project Muse Project Muse: Online Journals from Johns Hopkins University Press provides full text access to journals in literary theory, classics, history and cultural studies, philosophy, film, theatre and performing arts, political science, and mathematics. 
   
• PsycINFO Also known as APA PsycInfo. It covers the international literature in psychology. Topics include: applied psychology, communication systems, developmental psychology, education psychology, experimental psychology, personality, physical and psychological disorders, physiological psychology, psychometrics, social psychology and sports psychology. Formats covered by this database are: journal articles, book chapters, dissertations and technical reports. 
   

• Dissertations & Theses @ McMaster University. Contains citations & abstracts of all McMaster theses submitted to UMI Dissertation Publishing. Authorized McMaster users can download full-text PDF versions (if available) of dissertations and theses published by McMaster students.