Search & Find

Selecting the Best Resources for Your Topic more information
This interactive, self-paced tutorial guides students through evaluating article abstracts and citations in order to determine their usefulness for a research topic. Covers areas to consider such as audience, point of view, and relevancy. Includes self-assessment exercises with instant feedback. Keywords: articles, references, research strategy, citation chaining, evaluating citations, related research
Research Rules to Live By more information
Tips for students and instructors on advanced uses of library resources to support in-depth research. Topics include using article indices, interpreting bibliographic records and more. Keywords: faculty, research skills, writing assignments, interlibrary loan, upper-level undergraduates, juniors, seniors, research papers, ILL, librarian support, citation chaining, documenting sources citation, academic listservs