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| Writing a Research Paper Section 1 - Begin Research [html] Learn more about understanding your assignment and choosing a suitable topic. Then you can select appropriate keywords to search. Running Time: ~8:30 |
| Section 2 - Knowledge Cycle [html] Become familiar with the information cycle and the purpose of various information sources. Understand how different disciplines define primary, secondary, and tertiary sources. Running Time: ~11:00 |
| Section 3 - Find Books [html] Discover why books can be valuable sources and learn where to search for them. Running Time: ~8:00 |
| Section 4 - Find Articles [html] Find out how to locate articles from newspapers, magazines, and scholarly journals in library databases. Running Time: ~8:00 |
| Section 5 - Basic Search [html] Start a search and improve your search results by incorporating useful strategies. Running Time: ~17:30 |
| Section 6 - Advanced Search [html] Increase your search skills by incorporating subject searching, limiting by specific fields, and exploring additional databases. Running Time: ~12:00 |
| Using the Library Interlibrary Loan Top 10 [flash] The top 10 things to know about Interlibrary Loan Running Time: 4:32 |
| Requesting an Article [flash] Learn how to request an article not available in our library. Typical delivery time is 3-5 days. Running Time: 2:42 |
| My ILL Request [flash] Learn how to view and manage your Interlibrary Loan materials (including online renewals) by accessing My ILL Request. Running Time: 2:26 |
| UC-eLinks [html] A starting guide for using UC-eLinks |
| VPN Connect from Off Campus [flash] Learn about the VPN and how to set it up on your computer for off campus access. Running Time: 2:26 |
| Publishing Your Research 101 How to Write a Paper to Communicate Your Research - Introduction [flash] Running Time: 8:40 |
| Improving your writing skills [flash] Running Time: 3:56 |
| Writing so people will notice [flash] Running Time: 4:08 |
| What have you done when your article is rejected? [flash] Running Time: 2:56 |
| What are your favorite articles? [flash] Running Time: 1:58 |
| The impact of technology on scientific articles [flash] Running Time: 5:51 |
| Videos and scientific communication [flash] Running Time: 6:05 |
| How do you choose your areas for research? [flash] Running Time: 2:30 |
| Why did you do this video? [flash] Running Time: 2:17 |
| General Research How to Avoid Plagiarism: What is Plagiarism? [flash] Watch this entertaining set of movies to gain an understanding of plagiarism and how to best avoid risking your academic integrity. By the Paul Robeson Library at Rutgers. |
| How to Avoid Plagiarism: Real Life Examples [flash] Watch this entertaining set of movies to gain an understanding of plagiarism and how to best avoid risking your academic integrity. By the Paul Robeson Library at Rutgers. |
| How to Avoid Plagiarism: The Cite is Right Quiz Show [flash] Watch this entertaining set of movies to gain an understanding of plagiarism and how to best avoid risking your academic integrity. By the Paul Robeson Library at Rutgers. |
| Empirical Studies [flash] Learn how to find empirical studies in PsycInfo by viewing this tutorial. Running Time: 2:26 |
| Critical Evaluation of Resources [html] How do you make sense of what is out there and evaluate its authority and appropriateness for your research? |
| About Google Scholar [html] Google Scholar is a search engine which provides access to resources across a range of subjects. |
| Scholarly vs. Popular [html] This guide will help you evaluate the articles you find and plan to use. |
| Guide to Alexa [html] Alexa.com is a website information service hosted by Amazon.com. |
| Search Engines [html] A list of useful search engines |
| Searching in Congressional Quarterly Researcher How to access and search Congressional Quarterly's CQ Researcher, CQ Weekly, CQ Almanac via UC Merced, Library. Running Time: 6:34 |
Preventing Plagiarism: Keepin' it Real [flash] This tutorial uses talking avatars and graphics to explain the pitfalls of plagiarism. Created by Alanna Aiko Moore, Alice Perez, Gayatri Singh and Marlo Young at UC San Diego’s Social Science & Humanities Library. |
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