Services for Students

The Research Process 

• Overview of research steps
• Select a topic
• Background information
• Define and refine your topic

Identifying Different Resource Types 

• Primary and Secondary Sources
• Scholarly, Trade and Popular Materials
• Scholarly vs. Popular Periodicals (a tutorial by Vanderbilt)
• Peer review in 5 minutes (NCSU)

Conducting the Search 

• Search techniques
  • Effective Searching (a tutorial by the University of Kansas)
• Subject search vs. key word search
• Find books
  • Searching for Books in the Library Catalog (Touro College Tutorial)
  • How to Find eBooks (Touro College Tutorial)
• Find articles
  • Searching for Articles (Touro College Tutorial)
  • Searching for Articles With Article Linker (Touro College Tutorial)
• Find statistics

Evaluating Information Sources 

• Evaluating Web Resources
  • The CRAAP Test for website evaluation (California State University--Chico)
• Evaluating Print Resources
• Evaluating Blogs and Wikis (University at Albany)
• Wikipedia: beneath the surface (a Tutorial by the North Carolina State University)
• How to evaluate a Wikipedia article

Writing the Paper 

• Research and writing guide
• Avoiding plagiarism
  • How much have you learned about plagiarism: A Quiz (University of Southern Mississippi Libraries)
• You quote it, You note it! a tutorial on plagiarism (Vaughan Memorial Library)
• Quoting, paraphrasing and summarizing (Purdue Online Writing Lab)
• Sample Research Papers - APA | MLA

Citing sources 

• Citation styles: APA | MLA | find an article's DOI |More on APA with examples
• AMA Style for Health Sciences Studies
• Cite it right  (a tutorial from University of Texas at San Antonio)
• Deconstructing Citations (a tutorial by Cooperative Library Instruction Project) 
• NoodleTools
  • Cite your sources using NoodleTools (MLA, APA or Chicago/Turabian Style)

Tutorials

• EBSCO Advanced Search Tutorial
• MedlinePlus Tour
• Health Sciences Recorded Webinar (In this webinar, we introduce the main library research tools available to our students--approx. 30 minutes)
• Literature Reviews: an overview for graduate students (NCSU)
• How to read a scientific paper (Purdue University)

Information Literacy Assessment

• Library Instruction Survey (Undergraduate)
• Library Instruction Survey (Graduate)
• Library Instruction Faculty Evaluation Form

Links by Discipline

• Health Sciences