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This guide includes video, text-based and interactive tutorials on a variety of interdisciplinary and subject-specific topics. These tutorials have largely been organized by stages in the research process. Clicking on the menu on the left side of the page will open up a list of the tutorial topics available on that page. You can also scan the comprehensive listing below.
Research Basics
- Choose a research topic
- Develop a research question
- Build an effective search
- Databases vs. search engines
- How to Find Library Databases
Scholar OneSearch
- What is Scholar OneSearch?
- Find full text articles
- Use advanced search
- Set up search alerts
- Search for course materials
- Interlibrary loan
- Request materials from the Annex
- Save to EndNote
- Save to RefWorks
- Save to Zotero
- Save to Mendeley
Search Tips and Strategies
- How to narrow a search
- How to find more search results
- Google Scholar
- How to find an e-book
- How to use an article to find more sources
- How to find case studies
- How to find streaming media
- Find cases and law reviews in Westlaw Campus Research
- How to find books and other resources in the Internet Archive
- How to find dissertations
- Use a citation to find the full article
- How to find journals by subject
- How to set up search and publication alerts
Scholarly/Peer Reviewed Sources
- What is peer review?
- Scholarly vs. non-scholarly sources
- How to find peer reviewed articles
- How to determine if an article is peer reviewed
Evaluate Sources
- Evaluate articles and journals
- Evaluate books and book chapters
- Evaluate websites
- Evaluate data & statistics
- What is a primary source?
- How to read a research article
- Annotated bibliographies
- Understand literature reviews in research
- How to analyze research for a literature review
- Primary vs. review articles
- Quantitative vs. qualitative
- Green vs. gold open access
Cite Sources
- Citation fundamentals
- Citation managers
- APA citations
- Chicago citations
- MLA citations
- IEEE citations
- How to cite government publications
- Cite data and statistics
Data & Statistics
Subject-specific Tutorials
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Art & Architecture Research
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Business & Market Research
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Education Research
- What are peer reviewed empirical studies (and how can I tell if I've found one?)
- How do I find peer reviewed empirical research articles?
- Empirical vs. theoretical articles
- How do I find action research?
- Locate information about theoretical frameworks
- Advanced search strategies for Education research
- Practitioner journals: what they are and how to find them
- How do I find cases and law review articles in Westlaw Campus Research?
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Health Sciences Research
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History Research
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STEM Research
- Primary vs. review articles
- How to create an O'Reilly for Higher Education Account
- How to read the title of a standard
- How do we know when to cite evidence?
- When do we need to cite the original source?
- How to cite figures in IEEE style
- How to cite interviews in IEEE style
- What is inclusive citation
- Patent searching strategies
- Patent searching: Google Patent search
- MathSciNet
- Web of Science