Take a library workshop and learn how to improve your searching skills, organize your citations using RefWorks and learn tools to stay current in your research field.
This page will help guide you through the process of choosing a topic and identifying resources that may be useful in your research.
Everything from how to find reviews and primary sources to locating reserves and evaluating sources. Brought to you by the Undergraduate Library.
Departmental libraries create webpages that provide instructional resources for students and instructors, including research guides, subject guides, database guides, and class guides. A subject guide might consist of an annotated bibliography on a particular topic, or it might be a detailed list of library resources for a specific topic.
Need help finding or downloading statistical and spatial data? Dawn-Owens Nicholson (Data Archivist, ATLAS) and librarians with a wide range of expertise will be available to help you locate relevant data sets in opinion polls, election studies, social surveys, census, education, and health data and prepare them for analysis in SPSS, SAS, STATA and ArcGIS.
This site, compiled and hosted by the Education and Social Science Library, is designed to serve the unique needs of student teachers in the state of Illinois, particularly the undergraduates who are student teaching each year
RefWorks is a personal citation management and formatting software tool. It can help you take the tedium out of reference tracking. Access your personal citation database from anywhere and insert citations directly into Microsoft Word using the Write 'n Cite feature. For more information on this service brought to you by the University Library and CITES, please visit the online tutorial.
Links include the Writer's Workshop, a guide to citation style manuals, citing electronic resources and more.
The library has many citation style manuals available online, e.g. Chicago Manual of Style. If you need assistance with citation styles, you can contact Ask a Librarian.
If you have purchased your own license to EndNote, here are the connections files and guides provided by the library.
Zotero is a free Firefox extension to help you collect, manage, and cite your research sources. Most convenient for saving screenshots of webpages.
If you are interested in these services, you can contact the departmental library for your subject area to see what is offered, or, if you use OVID or CSA databases, you might want to set up your own account. You can try the do-it-yourself instructions.
Save valuable research time! Online research resources are pervasive today, making it much harder to stay current in your field. This workshop will introduce several current awareness features including how to set up an RSS feed reader account, creating search alerts from library databases as well as Table of Contents alerts.
Tuesday 2/5, 3:30-4:30pm
Tuesday 3/4, 3:30-4:30pm
University policies and procedures on academic integrity. Includes a definition of plagiarism and tips on how to avoid it.
Copyright resources including the Campus Guide to Copyright Compliance for Academic Institutions, intellectual property organizations, and tutorials guiding the novice through the basics of copyright.
How to get one-on-one help or virtual assistance from a librarian.
You can ask questions anytime via phone, email, or instant chat!
Attend a library tour either in person or virtually.
Hands-on learning designed for you through library workshops.
Online tutorials that will help you learn everything about the library from the online library catalog to RefWorks.
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Last modified by: Merinda Hensley on 2/5/08