Greenfield Community College

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)