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Research help, tutorials
Library tutorials  
Most tutorials require Flash.
   
Finding journal, magazine & newspaper articles:

How to access library databases (under 2 minutes).  

New!  Ebsco basic searching (3 minutes).  Uses new interface.

New!   Ebsco advanced searching (3 minutes).  Uses new interface.

Introduction to LexisNexis Academic (under 8 minutes).

 
Accessing nursing and allied health literature:


Overview of Anoka Technical College health databases (under 5 minutes).

Cinahl Plus with Full Text Basic Searching (under 7 minutes).  Uses old interface.

New!  Cinahl and MeSH (subject) headings (6 minutes).  Begins from the advanced search screen, new interface. 


Searching and research techniques:


Boolean searching (Basics)  Courtesy Colorado State University Libraries. 

Advanced Boolean searching  (Combining AND, OR, NOT)  Courtesy Colorado State University Libraries. 

Truncation  Courtesy Colorado State University Libraries. 

Web searching and evaluation:

Finding information on the internet University of California, Berkeley Libraries.

Website evaluation exercise   Anoka Technical College.
                                   Handout with web evalation criteria.

Evaluating Web sources  Courtesy Colorado State University Libraries. 

How to evaluate Web sites  - Includes questions and criteria lists.  By Widener University. 

Additional tutorials:

Popular vs. scholarly articles  University of Arizona Library.

You quote it, you note it!  (Avoiding Plagiarism).  Vaughn Memorial Library. Acadia University.

Citation tutorials:

Cite this! MLA style workshop.  Anoka Technical College.

Cite this!  APA style workshop.  Anoka Technical College.

Citation research tutorial.  Eastern Washington University.