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Introduction
I have created this guide as a helpful starting point for your research in Education, especially in terms of finding relevant source material, including both quantitative and qualitative data. The links I include here by no means exhaust the resources LUMS Library makes available for your research, so if you don't find something you're looking for, please email me or make an appointment to meet with me using the contact information on this page.
Library Services
Gad and Birgit Rausing Library is a multi-disciplinary library serving the faculty, students, researchers, and staff of the university. It is providing quality innovative services to its' patrons.
Plagiarism Detection Service
The library facilitates LUMS faculty's access to online plagiarism detection and management software i.e., Turnitin. The library also provides similarity reports and certificates according to HEC rules for final thesis and projects.
For Similarity Index reports:
Monday to Friday (9:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m.)
Saturday and Sunday (11:30 a.m. to 8:00 p.m.)
For Certificates:
Monday to Friday (9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.)
Fresh Arrivals
New books added in library collection for patrons.
Useful Info
LUMS Library provides virtual access to its resources, i.e. databases, eBooks and journals etc.
News and Announcement
The Dynamic Duo at SOE: Story of Aisha Khan and Muhammad Usman
Aisha Khan and Muhammad Usman’s journey from two continents to the Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS) is a remarkable couple goals story of love, education, and resilience. Their combined passion for education brought them together and saw them through a remarkable academic adventure at LUMS. Read More
MoU Signing Ceremony with LACAS
On Wednesday, 3rd April, 2024, The Partnerships and Placements Office at SOE, signed an MoU with Lahore College of Arts and Sciences (LACAS). Zainab Qureshi, Managing Director, LACAS and Dr. Tariq Jadoon, Provost LUMS, signed the document in the presence of students, staff and faculty. Read More
SOE hold its 3rd Practicum Showcase Conference
The LUMS Syed Ahsan Ali and Syed Maratib Ali School of Education (SOE) hosted its 3rd Practicum Showcase Conference on 23rd April 2024 to showcase the year-long research-based capstone project of its MPhil students. The conference was attended by more than 500 people including students, alumni, academic professionals, heads of eminent universities, schools, NGOs and education experts. The projects were displayed through exciting gallery walk presentations and engaging panel discussions. The attendees engaged in fruitful discussions on the challenges and opportunities of the education sector. Read More
MoU Signing Ceremony with Punjab Education Foundation
On Tuesday, 12th March 2024, The Partnerships and Placements Office, SOE LUMS, signed an MoU with Punjab Education Foundation. MD, PEF, Shahid Farid and Acting Dean SOE, Dr. Tariq Jadoon signed the document in the presence of students, staff and faculty. Students asked insightful questions regarding PEF's area of work.” Read More
LUMS SOE signs an MoU with Aalam Bibi Trust
Syed Ahsan Ali and Syed Maratib Ali School of Education recently signed an MoU with Aalam Bibi Trust. Founded in 2005 by Dr. Farah Deeba Akram, Aalam Bibi Trust is an independent, non-political, charitable organization committed to aiding the underprivileged. Its mission is to offer education, food, and health services, empowering individuals to escape the cycle of poverty through comprehensive development in education, social well-being, and ethics. Read More
Bibliography
Your bibliography must follow either the APA, MLA or The Chicago Manual of Style. Whatever style you use, make sure you use it correctly and consistently. Do not have more than one style in a bibliography.
Partnerships & Collaborations
The LUMS SOE model consists of a substantial Partnership and Engagement Programmme (PEP). With a vision to operate at the crucial nexus of research, policy and practice, the LUMS School of Education is in the exploratory phase to develop a network of regional partnerships with private, public, donor and not-for-profit organizations in the education sector. More
School Education Department
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Ministry of Federal Education
Ministry of Professional and Technical Training was established in July 2011 in the wake of 18th Amendment. Some of the Departments / Organizations previously under MOLM and MOE were placed under this Ministry. Supreme Court of Pakistan in its Judgment dated 25th November, 2011 directed that in view of insertion of Article 25-A in the Constitution, the Federal Government cannot absolve itself from the responsibility of providing Education to its citizens. More
Academic Calendar
Edu Newsletter
Books
Search Print Books
While searching the database for your required books by author, title or subject, use keywords i.e., Social Issues, Social Behaviours etc.
Electronic Books
While searching the database for your required books by author, title or subject, use keywords i.e., Cultural Anthropology, Physical Anthropology etc.
Subscribed e-Books
It offers an increasing selection of more than 220,000+ e-Books in business, economics, computers, engineering, and technology
Listing more than 35,000 English works in various formats.
Text Books
The Bloomsbury Handbook of Theory in Comparative and International Education by Call Number: KIC 370.9 B655 2023ISBN: 9781350245129Publication Date: 2023-08-24
International Schools and International Education by Call Number: KIC 371 I612 2000ISBN: 9780749433680Publication Date: 2000-10-01
International perspectives on teacher education / edited by Donald K. Sharpes. by Call Number: KIC 370.71 I612 2020ISBN: 9780367472542Publication Date: 2020
Course Reserves
Course Reserves
Course reserves are learning materials made available by course instructor during this current semester. They may include electronic articles, books and DVDs and even websites.
Find e-Reserves
Course reserves are learning materials made available by your course instructor during this current semester.
Course reserves are learning materials made available by your course instructor during previous semester. They may include electronic articles, books and DVDs and even websites.
Past Papers
These examination papers are copyright material owned by the Lahore University of Management Sciences Authority and may contain copyright material owned by third parties. Users should ensure that their use complies with the Copyright Act 1962.
Search Course Reserves
Select course ID, course name, instructor name or title from the drop down menu and search the whole collection, of course reserves.
e-Databases
Searching Tips
E-databases archive scholarly journal featuring full-text articles from journals in Social Sciences, Humanities, Political Science, Sociology, Economics, History, and many more disciplines; coverage varies by title.
Search Articles
Once you have identified your topic, check to see if it is too specific, if it is, work toward a general focus. This will help you generate a list of keywords or concepts related to your topic. Use our Web Discovery service to search articles from databases subscribed by the LUMS Library. Keywords: Social Issues, Social behaviours etc.
Scopus
Scopus is the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed research literature with more than 20,500 titles from more than 5,000 international publishers. Scopus offers researchers a quick, easy and comprehensive resource to support their research needs in the scientific, technical, medical and social sciences fields and arts and humanities.
Google Scholar
Google Scholar is a useful and effective resource that allows you to search across a wide range of literature. It draws on information from journal publishers, university repositories, and other websites that it has identified as scholarly
e-Databases
ProQuest Social Science Premium Collection
This collection provides access to databases covering international literature in social sciences, including politics, public policy, sociology, social work, anthropology, criminology, linguistics, library science, and education. Featured databases include IBSS, Sociological Abstracts and Worldwide Political Science Abstracts. Together, they provide abstracts, indexing and full-text coverage of journal articles, books, book chapters, dissertations, working papers, and more.
Project MUSE offers full text access to current content from prestigious humanities and social sciences journals. It is the most reliable source of titles from many of the world's leading university presses and scholarly societies, journals with critically acclaimed articles by the most respected scholars in their fields. It provides full text access to more than 147888 articles from 406 scholarly journals by more than 100 publishers.
The world's leading electronic collection of scientific journals and provides access to the fulltext of last 5 years. The subject areas covered in this database are: Anthropology, Business Management and Accounting, Mathematics, Computer Science, and Economics.
An online archive database with complete backfiles of over 700 core scholarly journals covering Anthropology, Business, Finance, Economics, Mathematics, Statistics, Language, Law, Religion, Philosophy, History, Geography, Biological Sciences, Political Sciences and Education.
One of the world's leading online information services for scientific, technical, and medical books and journals. Over 1100 fully peer reviewed journals are available with back files starting from different dates.
Wiley InterScience offers over 3 million articles from 1400+ journals, the combined output of all Wiley-Blackwell peer-reviewed primary research and survey journals. It covers the full spectrum of science, technology, Engineering, medicine, business, social sciences, and the humanities. Many of these titles are ranked at the forefront of their fields.
Journals
Searching Tips
Journals are collection of articles that are published on a regular basis to report current research within discipline. Use keywords, phrases, titles or authors or use Boolean operators ( AND, OR, or NOT) to construct a more complex query. Refine using these filters to narrow or expand your result most related to your Topic. Keywords: Cultural Anthropology, Physical Anthropology.
Search Print Journals
Collection of published journals which are subscribed sources by the library for faculty, students, researchers and staff to provide reference and research articles.
Search e-Journals
Use our Web Discovery service to search articles through title and ISSN from our subscribed databases.
CAS Source Index (CASSI)
Help with Abbreviations (Journals) - CASSI
The CAS Source Index (CASSI) Search Tool is an online resource intended to support researchers and librarians who need accurate bibliographic information. Use this complimentary tool to quickly identify or confirm journal titles and abbreviations for publications indexed by CAS since 1907, including serial and non-serial scientific and technical publications.
Citing Sources
Citing Sources
EndNote Web: a Web-based service designed to help students and researchers through the process of writing a research paper. Undergraduate students can organize their references for citing in papers. Professional researchers and graduate students can use EndNote Web as the perfect complement to EndNote and other desktop writing tools, as well as storing references between ISI Web of Knowledge search sessions.
Zotero: an easy-to-use yet powerful research tool that helps you gather, organize, and analyze sources (citations, full texts, web pages, images, and other objects), and lets you share the results of your research in a variety of ways. It has the ability to store author, title, and publication fields and to export that information as formatted references and the best parts of modern software and web applications (like iTunes and del.icio.us), such as the ability to interact, tag, and search in advanced ways. Zotero integrates tightly with online resources; it can sense when users are viewing a book, article, or other object on the web, and on many major research and library sites find and automatically save the full reference information for the item in the correct fields.
EasyBib (Write Smart): The free version of EasyBib formats citations in the latest edition of the MLA format (currently the 7th edition). To use EasyBib's APA formatting services, sign up for MyBib Pro by clicking here: https://www.mybib.com/#/projects/ZeOY99/citations.
KnightCite: an online citation generator service provided by the Hekman Library of Calvin College. This service simplifies the often tedious task of compiling an accurate bibliography in the appropriate style by formatting the given data on a source into a reliable citation, eliminating the need to memorize minute details of style for multiple kinds of sources. The service is provided free of charge by the college, and is available to members both within and outside of the Calvin community.
JabRef: an open source bibliography reference manager. The native file format used by JabRef is BibTeX, the standard LaTeX bibliography format. JabRef runs on the Java VM (version 1.5 or newer), and should work equally well on Windows, Linux and Mac OS X.
Son of Citation Machine: Professional researchers to properly credit the information that they use. Its primary goal is to make it so easy for student researchers to cite their information sources, that there is virtually no reason not to -- because Someday The Information That Someone Else Wants To Use -- Will Be Yours!
refbase: This web database lets you manage your academic references online, and share them with your colleagues. Using this free web service you can upload your references and see what others are reading, the database currently features 24047 records, organize and group your references, and assign keywords to them, so it's easy to get back to a reference, generate a formatted list of citations for your academic paper or CV (as HTML, RTF, PDF, or LaTeX), export references to desktop reference managers (such as Endnote, or Reference Manager) or BibTeX, and import records from common bibliographic formats and online databases.
RefWorks: is a reference management service that supports the needs of students, faculty and librarians. With a streamlined user experience, full-text management and collaboration features, RefWorks gives students and faculty a tool that enables a more efficient and reliable process for producing research papers.A modern interface that makes it easy to store and manage all of your references, together with your uploaded citations. References can include uploaded files, physical or electronic books or chapters cataloged in your institution, and citations on, or reference by, external web sites. View and annotate uploaded citations directly in RefWorks.
e- References
Welcome to Reference Resources
Find below variety of Reference Resources!
Dictionaries, Thesauri
The OED is the definitive record of the English language, featuring 600,000 words, 3 million quotations, and over 1,000 years of English.
Online access to Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary and some other dictionaries published by Cambridge University Press.
Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary and Thesaurus
Large general dictionary available online.The Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary is based on the print version of Merriam-Webster's Collegiate® Dictionary, Eleventh Edition. The online dictionary includes the main A-Z listing of the Collegiate Dictionary, as well as the Abbreviations, Foreign Words and Phrases, Biographical Names, and Geographical Names sections of that book.
The thesaurus that appears on this site is Roget’s II:The New Thesaurus. Thesaurus.com is produced by Dictionary.com. To use the thesaurus, simply type a word in the gold search box and click the 'Search' button. A list of synonyms and antonyms will be returned.
Google Map
Encyclopedia
Britannica Online Academic Edition
Online version of the Encyclopaedia Brittanica. Use this powerful resource to search or browse for information in encyclopedias, magazines, videos, and Web sites.
Searches a collection of free encyclopedias and other reference works on the internet. HighBeam Encyclopedia provides current and archived articles from more than 3,500 credible reference works and publications, including newspapers, journals, and magazines. Searching our site allows you to find the exact article you’re searching for in our online research archive of more than 60 million Web articles. This article archive search is perfect for students looking for homework help, educators wanting to keep up with current information, and businesspeople looking to gain an edge.
Almanacs
Find Your Relevant Sources
Step by Step Guide:
Finding, Evaluating, and Citing Information Sources
The academic research is a standard feature of every student at LUMS. Therefore for every student, research projects raise important questions, such as: Where do you find relevant information for your research? How do you find, evaluate and manage that information retrieved?
When you engage in academic research, shrewd and knowledgeable in the realities of your research topics. You must:
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Know where and how to search efficiently to find the best information for your purposes
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Make good decisions regarding the quality and appropriateness of your information sources, including assessing whether a resource is trustworthy and up-to-date
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Know who has rights to the work you use
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Know how to properly give others credit for their ideas
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Know the extent to which you can ethically remix or synthesize ideas and information in your own work
This is where research skills and knowledge of LUMS academic integrity guidelines are key.
Your approach to information research, like your needs and requirements regarding sources of information, will vary depending on what you research. A quick Google or Wikipedia search may suit your purposes in some scenarios, but, for academic research, that’s just the first step.
When you conduct academic research, you join a community of scholars in a chain of conversation and truth seeking that has gone on for centuries before you. In the digital age, you have more access to collected information than anyone else has ever had.
Digital literacy is the ability to find, evaluate, utilize, share, and create content using information technologies and the Internet.
Searching Books
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Books can help you to get a better idea of your topic, as they contains lots of ideas, concepts, as well as keywords and a bibliography. It’s the best way to get your research started.
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Use libraryportal to find books.
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If finding books proves difficult, visit library helpdesk or send request at library@lums.edu.pk for search guidelines.
Library Subject Guides
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Check the online Library Guides for the most applicable databases - there's one for every subject/major on campus.
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Use the databases listed within the guide to find articles on your topic.
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If you prefer to see a listing of all of the databases you have access to, as LUMS student, go to the Articles & Databases listing.
Off Campus Access to Databases
Please connect to off campus access for entire library services through VPN service.
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Type keyword relating to your topic, see the content list in your search and refine your search.
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Read the abstract of the article, as it gives details which title doesn't mention very often.
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when you have found your required articles, check the references. These references will provide you with more papers and books, similar to the article(s) you found.
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Sometimes you will find articles that are not directly available in our databases. You can still get the article free of charge with the use of Interlibrary Loan.
For the Advanced User: Google Scholar
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Use Google Scholar for searching scholarly articles relevant to your required articles, and US case law.
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Web Discovery connects you to all LUMS databases, eliminating the need to check each individual database for appropriate materials. Doing so works well when the "obvious" databases are not giving you the materials you need.
How to Avoid Plagiarism
How to Avoid Plagiarism
It’s easy to find information for most research papers, but it’s not always easy to add that information into your paper without falling into the plagiarism trap. There are easy ways to avoid plagiarism. Follow some simple steps while writing your research paper to ensure that your document will be free of plagiarism. For More
