Services for Students

Getting Started: the Research Process 

• Overview of research steps
• Select a topic
• Background information
• Define and refine your topic
• Formulating a research question (a tutorial by William Badke)

Identifying Different Resource Types 

• Primary and Secondary Sources
• Scholarly, Trade, and Popular Materials
• Scholarly vs. Popular Periodicals (Vanderbilt University)
• Peer review in 5 minutes (North Carolina State University)

Gathering information: Conducting the Search 

• Search techniques
  • Effective Searching (University of Kansas)
  • How to search a database (University of Tennessee at Chattanooga)
• Subject search vs. key word search
• Find books
  • Searching for Books in the Library Catalog (Touro College)
  • How to Find eBooks (Touro College)
• Find articles
  • Searching for Articles (Touro College)
  • Searching for Articles With Article Linker (Touro College)
  • Connecting Google Scholar to the Touro Library Databases
• 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 (North Carolina State University)
• How to evaluate a Wikipedia article

Writing the Paper 

• Research and writing guide
• Avoiding plagiarism (contains Touro College's Academic Integrity statement)
  • How much have you learned about plagiarism: A Quiz (University of Southern Mississippi Libraries)
  • Cite it Rite (Touro College 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
• Chicago Style for history, humanities and the arts
• Cite it right  (University of Texas at San Antonio)
• Deconstructing Citations (Cooperative Library Instruction Project) 
• NoodleTools (a bibliograhy management tool)
• Zotero (a citation manager that stores, manages and cites bibliographic information)
  • Take a video tour to find out how Zotero can help you with your research

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 (North Carolina State University)
• 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
• Judaica Resources