Research Tutorials
Use the links below to view HTML and multimedia tutorials showing how to use and search the research databases:
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LIBRARY ACCESS / ORIENTATION:
- Find Information Quick Start Tutorial (cheat sheet: start here!)
- Access Databases with your College Login and Password
- Library Resources Orientation / (print version)
- FReD - identify and access full-text journals
RESEARCH DATABASE TUTORIALS:
- Academic OneFile (formerly Expanded Academic ASAP) and InfoTrac Interactive Tutorial
- ARTstor Quick Start
- AP Media Archive Quick Start
- Biography Resource Center Brief Tutorial
- Congressional Quarterly Researcher Brief Tutorial
- ebrary Quick Start Tutorial
- EBSCOhost Quick Start (Academic Search Premier, Business Source Premier, etc.)
- Gale Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center
- History (America History and Life & Historical Abstracts)
- JSTOR Quick Start
- Mergent Online (print version)
- MLA International Bibliography Brief Tutorial
- ProQuest Quick Start
- Science Direct Brief Tutorial
- Westlaw Campus Quick Start
- RefWorks Quick Start
RESEARCH TECHNIQUES:
- Find Information Quick Start Tutorial (good place to start!)
- Academic Skills Video Tutorials - series of brief videos about steps in the research process such as choosing a topic, using library databases, etc.
- Annotated Bibliographies
- Distinguishing Scholarly Journals from Other Periodicals
- Doing Graduate-Level Library Research
- Evaluating Web Sites
- Evaluating for Sources of Bias and Logical Fallacies
- Evaluating the Reliability of Resources That Use Statistics (Without Doing Math)
- Information Literacy - learn to do research and document sources via self-paced exercises and readings
- Making Sense of Evidence - using primary sources
- Understanding Citations (print version)
- Primary and Secondary Sources: What Are They and How To Use Them
- Quick Tips for New Users
- Research Tips for Distance Learning Students
- Six Step Approach to Research
- Writing the Literature Review
SEARCH TIPS:
- Library Research Blog - monthly articles with search tips and resource reviews
- How to Identify Keywords that describe your research topic
- Using Boolean Operators in Research Databases (print version)
- Boolean Searching Primer (Albany)
