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• Locate meta-analyses, empirical studies & literature reviews in PsycINFO more information

  This tutorial will teach you how to use PsycINFO to locate meta-analyses, empirical studies, and research studies.   Keywords: PsycINFO Meta-analysis Empirical Study Research Study

• Finding an Article When You Have a Citation more information

  This interactive tutorial provides students with step by step instructions for using the UA Library Catalog to locate articles from a citation. Keywords: LexisNexis Academic Universe, finding journal articles, accessing electronic resources, side by side, OPAC, catalog searching, activity, QuickHelp, database searching

• Searching America's Historical Newspapers more information

  Interactive tutorial that teaches students how to locate, search, and retrieve articles from the Early American Newspapers database. Keywords: periodicals, newspapers, QuickHelp, side by side

• Locating Children’s Literature more information

  This interactive tutorial teaches students how to find and evaluate children's literature in the University of Arizona Library Catalog. Keywords: book records, analyze, evaluate results, juvenile, young adult, refine search results, side by side, OPAC, limit search, QuickHelp

• Using Primary and Secondary Sources: A Practice Tutorial more information

  Get practice with differentiating between primary and secondary sources for historical research. Includes practice activities with instant feedback. Keywords: periodicals, identifying sources, newspaper, oral histories, memoirs, documents, raw material

• Locating Manuscripts in Special Collections more information

  This interactive tutorial provides students with step by step instructions on the process of locating special collections materials from the UA Library Catalog, interpreting item catalog records and using finding aids. Keywords: archives, rare books, primary sources, finding aids

• Using BLAST to find a homologous protein's location on a gene more information

  This tutorial will show you how to use NCBI’s BLAST (Basic Local Alignment Search Tool) to search for a protein’s location on a gene, and how to gather some basic information on that gene. Keywords: BLAST; FASTA; Protein sequence; homologous

• Med Student Guide to AHSL more information

  This tutorial will introduce first year medical students to some of the key resources available to them through the Arizona Health Sciences Library. Keywords: medical student databases resources textbooks

• Searching Web of Science more information

  Learn how to get the most out of Web of Science by going beyond keyword searches and locating citations, the most cited papers, and more.  

• dataZoa™: Economic Indicator Research with Federal Reserve Economic Data more information