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Webcast Tutorials
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Research Strategies
4.1 minutes
- How to choose
your research topic
- How to identify
key concepts
- How to analyze
your information needs
- How to select
resources that match your information needs
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Citations
and Plagiarism 4.1
minutes
- Know how and why
one should always cite their research sources
- Recognize and
avoid both intentional and unintentional forms of plagiarism
- Become familiar
with MLA Style & APA Style
- Specific
examples of these citation styles are presented
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Peer Review
1.2 minutes
- What a
peer-reviewed journal is
- When and why to
use them
- Know the key
differences between a peer-reviewed journal and a popular magazine
- Know the key
differences between academic database sources and open Internet
sources
- Know the first
basic step in searching for peer reviewed articles in EbscoHost
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Evaluation of URLs
5 minutes
- Basic methods
for assessing the appropriateness of using web site sources for
papers and assignments
- Includes Google
ranking factors, inferences of domain extensions (.com, .edu,
.org, .gov), the importance of site authorship, mechanisms for
promoting accuracy, tracing reliability of sources
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Ebsco Host
2.2 minutes
- Learn
about the Ebsco databases
- Selecting
which databases to search
- Refining
your search results by filtering
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interpreting search results through citations & abstracts
- Selecting
article views (PDF or HTML)
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NetLibrary
(eBooks) 2.5 minutes
- What are eBooks
and NetLibrary?
- Why should you
use NetLibrary?
- How to create a
NetLibrary account
- How to log in to
NetLibrary
- What materials
are available in NetLibrary?
- How to use Basic
and Advanced Search functions
- How to copy and
print
- and more
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Google
2.8 minutes
- Basic Uses &
Searches
- Elements of the
Search Results
- Refining
Searches
- Advanced
Searches
- Google Images,
Groups, News & other features
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Courtesy of CLIP, the Cooperative Library Instruction Project |
