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Research Tutorials

The tutorials on this page focus on learning how to do research within specific subject areas or disciplines.

For each subject area, you may see video or PDF links.

Art & Architecture Research

Finding Images using the Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals

Business & market research

Education research

Empirical vs. theoretical articles

Practitioner journals: what they are and how to find them

Find cases and law review articles in Westlaw Campus Research

Find Cases and Law Review Articles in Westlaw Campus Research

History research

How do I find historical newspapers? (video link)

How do I find historical newspapers?

Archive Grid (video link)

STEM & Health Sciences research

Primary vs review articles (handout)

How do I find articles written by a nurse? (video link)
How do I find articles written by a nurse? Transcript

How to read the title of a standard

Help with Databases:

How can I create a more comprehensive search for literature in the health sciences? (PDF)

PubMed Essentials (interactive module)
How to use MeSH terms in your PubMed search (video link)
A short video detailing what MeSH terms are, how they can be used to make a stronger PubMed search, and how to add them to your PubMed searches.

How to use MeSH terms in your PubMed search
A guide to using PubMed's MeSH Database and searching with MeSH terms
How to build a MeSH search
A handout sharing the steps to identifying and adding MeSH terms to your PubMed search

Help with Rayyan, a tool for systematic reviews and evidence syntheses:

Creating a Review in Rayyan (video link)

Creating a Review in Rayyan

Inviting Collaborators to Your Review in Rayyan (video link)

Inviting Collaborators to Your Rayyan Review

Deduplicating in Rayyan (video link)

Deduplicating in Rayyan (PDF version)

Title / Abstract Screening Using Rayyan (video link)

Title / Abstract Screening Using Rayyan

Full Text Screening Using Rayyan (video link)

Full Text Screening Using Rayyan