Research guides and tutorials
For subject- or discipline-specific research guides, please click on the
icon to your right.
Research Guides
Assignment Calculator
(creates a schedule for your research)
Using Boolean
logic to narrow your search
Critical
Evaluation of Resources
Critically
Analyzing Information Sources
Evaluating Internet Resources
Library of
Congress call numbers: a tutorial
Library
Lingo
Locating
and Requesting Books and other Materials (handout)
Locating Periodicals
Using Print
Indexes
Distinguishing Scholarly
Journals from other periodicals
Selecting a Research Topic
Steps
of the Research Process
Information Literacy tutorials (see also Search
the Internet)
For beginners:
Searchpath
(includes quizzes)
Magician
Pilot (includes
quizzes with immediate feedback)
Plagiarism
Tutorial
TILT
For use in class or for the more experienced student:
Merlin (from
UMass)
(HINT: Use our online catalog and Expanded Academic database
for the searching exercises)
Information
Competence
Oasis (sorry, the quizzes are not
accessible)

