Guides & Tutorials

How to find books and videos

• How to find videos
• Quick introduction to the library catalogue  (video)
• How to read a call number  (video)
• Email alerts for books and videos
• Library of Congress classification:
  brief chart  | detailed outline

How to find articles

• How to find articles
• How to narrow your topic
• Improve your search with boolean logic (video)
• Boolean practice quiz
• Expand your search using truncation  (video)

Database guides

• Academic Search Complete Guide
• PubMed
• Create permanent web links to online articles

How to find book reviews

• Book Reviews: How to Find Them

How to find primary sources

• Locating primary sources in History
• Locating primary sources in the Sciences

How to evaluate articles

• Scholarly journals chart
• What is peer-reviewed?

How to evaluate websites

• A CAPS Guide to Evaluation

How to cite your sources

• APA, MLA, Chicago, etc.
• Cite your sources  (video)
• RefWorks
• RefWorks user guide
• MyEBSCOhost

How to avoid plagiarism

• Academic honesty - Douglas College
• Avoiding plagiarism - Purdue University
• Paraphrasing - Purdue University
• Plagiarism tutorial  - SFU

How to write a literature review

• The Literature Review
• Write a Literature Review
• The Literature Review: Six Steps to Success - LB 1047.3 M235 2009

How to use Microsoft Office

• Microsoft Word 2007 for APA tasks
• Microsoft Office 2007 tutorials

Popular Web Applications

• Web Apps list