Tutorials

Shows boolean searching. Deals with books, articles, journals & interlibrary loan. Tutorial with Multiple Choice feedback.

This tutorial will equip you with strategies for reading scholarly articles more quickly and effectively.

Set up your EndNote Online account and learn the basics of using it to organize and use your citations.

Why should you take the time to craft a great question before searching for information? Who? What? When? Where? Why?

What are the characteristics of information, and how do you find the right information during an investigation? Differences between types of information: popular, professional/trade, & scholarly.

Why search strategically? Design, refine, and adjust to find the best information with " ", and/or/not, *, and keyword synonyms.

What makes someone an authority and how do you know when to trust what someone has said or written? Authority is both constructed and contextual.

Importance of using citations and joining the scholarly conversation.

Jumping into research on a specific subject may feel overwhelming when faced with the vast amount of information that has been published on the subject. Research is like a conversation that takes place between scholars in a field.

Access to information, or lack of access, has the potential to affect the quality of one’s life. Access to information shapes people’s lives and how they can make informed decisions related to their lives and in their communities.

Different digital formats provide different amounts of information to resolve your information needs.

Cost & Value -- especially of digital information.

Finding information for clinical expertise when caring for patients/clients.

Offers video tutorials addressing research preparation, writing for research, the publication process, peer review, and research communication.

Self-paced, online course on how to do university-level research from JSTOR.

Relevant for searching Academic Source, Business Source, and other EBSCO databases.

Demonstrates the advanced searching and browsing functions of Academic Search Ultimate.

Demonstrates the advanced searching and browsing functions of Business Source database.

For Allied Health (Social Work, Communication Sciences & Disorders, etc.) & Nursing.

See "EBSCOhost Research Database Tutorials" and "EBSCO Health Tutorials" for links to database tutorials from EBSCO.

Addresses how to search using classification codes in PsychINFO. See the playlist on the right for additional PsychINFO tutorials.

ICPSR is the Inter-university Consortium for
Political and Social Research

Addresses how to search JSTOR, which offers interdisciplinary scholarly articles 3-5 years old and older.

Video on how to search Project MUSE.

Provides a guide to using various features of Data Planet.

Video on how to use Data Planet.

Provides links to guides on Web of Science, EndNote, InCites, and more.

Collection of videos featuring various aspects of Web of Science.