This guide provides instruction and quick links for utilizing the services, resources and spaces offered by the Chester Fritz Library.
- How-tos for finding resources
- Tips for searching and advanced searching
- Links to writing resource guides
- Getting Started on your Topic
- Ideas for choosing topics, including how to use an encyclopedia for topic ideas
- Research hacks
- Helpful Research Guides
- Citation Managers and Style Guides
- How to search for Dissertations and theses, DVDs, streaming videos
- How to search for eBooks, newspapers, government documents
- Links to information about Literature Reviews, Maps / Mapping, and Research Papers
- Finding Images
- How to use them ethically
- Links to several sites with Creative Commons-licensed items in the public domain
- Evaluating Websites and Information
- There are many ways to evaluate the validity of information. A few examples are included here.
- Using the Web Smartly
- Information to help with Fact Checking
- Resources for personal research
- Consumer reports for product reviews and genealogy research
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Finding Data
- Library Search
- Importance of signing in to library site
- How to search effectively for different types of materials
- explanation of what constitutes popular, trade or scholarly / academic journals
- How to Save Search Results
- Saving from the library database site
- Getting persistent links to come back to
- Citation Managers can help in saving articles, creating citation lists and more!
