Library Tutorials

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Research Tips

• Help! I have to do research for a paper! - 3-part series

  1. What are scholarly journal articles?  (2.30 min)
  2. How do I find scholarly journal articles for my papaer? 3 min
  3. Database searching simplified (4 min)

•  Using online encyclopedias (view video below)
  

Tutorials by subject

NURSING 

• CINAHL

Searching the nursing literature with CINAHL

CINAHL: Limiting to peer-reviewed articles and also by range of years and document type

Downloadable guide to CINAHL.

• PubMed

Searching PubMed.

Finding full-text of articles when searching PubMed.

Downloadable instructions for PubMed.

Citation and Style Guides

Helpful online guides for APA 6th ed

• The Basics of APA Style (online tutorial) 

• Research and Documentation Online (see section on APA …esp. sample paper) 

• The Owl (Purdue Online Writing Guide)

RefWorks and EndNote

• RefWorks 101 (Flash tutorial with sound)

• Using RefWorks to Format a Bibliography in APA 6th Style

• RefWorks Step-by-Step tutorial (from the RefWorks producers)

         -- Covers all the basic features of RefWorks

EndNote

• EndNote: Brief overview (Flash video with sound)

Comments on tutorials to Barbara Quintiliano,Instructional Design Librarian