Education Research
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Need specific information about Ohio University, or other academic institutions? Below are a few places to look for this kind of information.
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Ohio University Research
The best place to start is OU's Office of Institutional Research. This office has a great deal of info available online right at their website. Contact this office if you need more info or cannot find what you need. At this website you will find items such as:
- studies & reports about OU faculty, staff, students, depts/colleges or OU itself
- these would not be records about individual people, but groups (e.g., the avg. salary of all faculty in the Engineering dept)
Faculty Salaries
Alden Library has a listing of current faculty salaries in what is called the "salary book." Ask for it at the 2nd floor Learning Commons Reference Desk. Older salary books are available in the Archives, 5th floor.
Human Resources
Some information may be obtained by contacting the OU Office of Human Resources. For some information to be released a FOIA request may be required.
Historic OU Information
For historical OU information, contact the University Archives on Alden Library's 5th floor. This would be a good place to start for advice on finding information about OU's past. Keep in mind that many University Records are confidential and the privacy rights of individuals may prevent Archives staff from permitting full access.
Ask for indexes & finding aids at the desk during hours the Archives is open. The following files on Ohio University are indexed in hard copy in notebooks housed in the reading room (not available online)
- OU topical files -- various OU topics, including University buildings
- OU Biographical Resources -- biography files of some (not complete) Ohio University faculty and staff (may contain newspaper clippings, pamphlets, photographs, etc.)
General Education Research
The U.S. Department of Education's National Center for Education Statistics is the primary federal entity for collecting and analyzing data related to education in the United States and other nations. This website includes publications, data tables, surveys, fast facts and school search tools. Also see Education Statistics at a Glance, which includes reports such as The Condition of Education, The Digest of Education Statistics, and Projections of Education Statistics. You will be able to find information in these sources by searching documents through their tables of contents, by subject area, and through title only word searches.
The Association for Institutional Research offers a set of resources including data sets, policy studies and publications.
Articles from Education Journals
Ohio University Libraries subscribes to extra content, including the latest issue at the website of The Chronicle of Higher Education. This journal may also be accessed in several databases such as Education Research Complete and Lexis Nexis.
Article databases with Education publications:
Other Education Resources
- the Education section of InfoTree, the library's subject directory
- the Education section of the Librarian's Internet Index
- search Ohio University Outlook for articles
- search the Ohio University Post or other local and national newspapers
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