Research Tutorials

Use the links below to view HTML and multimedia tutorials showing how to use and search the research databases:

• Find Information Quick Start Tutorial (good place to start!)
• Access Databases with your College Login and Password
  • Activating Your College Login and Password
• Library Resources Orientation / (print version)
• FReD - identify and access full-text journals

• ARTstor Quick Start
• AP Media Archive Quick Start
• Biography Resource Center Brief Tutorial
• Congressional Quarterly Researcher Brief Tutorial
• ebrary Quick Start Tutorial
• EBSCOhost Quick Start
• Academic OneFile (formerly Expanded Academic ASAP) and InfoTrac Interactive Tutorial
• History (America History and Life & Historical Abstracts)
• JSTOR Quick Start
• Mergent Online (print version)
• MLA International Bibliography Brief Tutorial
• ProQuest Quick Start
• Science Direct Brief Tutorial
• Westlaw Campus Quick Start

• Evaluating Web Sites
• Evaluating for Sources of Bias and Logical Fallacies
• Primary and Secondary Sources: What Are They and How To Use Them
• Evaluating the Reliability of Resources That Use Statistics (Without Doing Math)
• Information Literacy - learn to do research and document sources via self-paced exercises and readings
• A Six Step Approach to Research
• Quick Tips for New Users
• Research Tips for Distance Learning Students
• Distinguishing Scholarly Journals from Other Periodicals
• Making Sense of Evidence - using primary sources
• Doing Graduate-Level Library Research (print version)
• Understanding Citations (print version)
• Annotated Bibliographies
• Writing the Literature Review

• Library Research Blog - monthly articles with search tips and resource reviews
• How to Identify Keywords that describe your research topic
• Using Boolean Operators in Research Databases (print version)
• Boolean Searching Primer (Albany)