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ProQuest Publication Searching
A powerful tool, but which publications?
The Information Age has greatly expanded what teachers need to teach and students need to learn.
Textbook learning becomes increasingly less relevant to students as the content and illustrations in their books become less relevant and sometimes outright obsolete within months of publication. In many schools, new textbooks are only made available after a six year cycle of use. In that time, volumes of new information is created, maps redrawn, many theories tweaked, and more, leaving teachers and students without access to the best, most current information to help them understand our world.
Thankfully, your ProQuest Platinum subscription helps bridge this gap! Take time this month to help your staff move beyond the idea that Platinum is "just" a great student database for research. While that is certainly true, educators often overlook the potential benefits that Platinum provides for them, both at school and from home via remote access during their free time.
Platinum can benefit educators in two special ways:
- Platinum makes it easy to keep up-to-date with new knowledge in the curriculum area they teach that can be integrated into lesson plans and class discussion handouts.
- Professional growth is facilitated by helping them keep current in the now rapidly changing world of education brought on by technology, the Internet, and scientific research on learning.
One of the best ways for educators to fully utilize Platinum is through our Publications search.
This search strategy is often overlooked by students and teachers who generally prefer the ease of a Basic search. Unfortunately, our publications are listed alphabetically, so unless teachers have the expertise of a librarian, they are unaware of the publications that benefit their curriculum area.
Fortunately, ProQuest has created a guide (get your copy here) for educators that organizes the most significant magazines and journals by curriculum area.
Librarians can copy and distribute this list to the teaching staff and demonstrate how easy it is to do a publication search for the most current information that they provide.
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