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)
• How to set up catalogue alerts (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
• Searching PubMed with MeSH  (National Library of Medicine)
• 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

Popular Web Applications

• Web Apps list
• Mobile Health Sciences Guide

Student Research Days

• Student Research Days - Poster Guide  

How to evaluate articles

• Scholarly journals chart
• What is peer-reviewed?
• Methodology Types  - PsycInfo database. (Brief definitions of empirical study,systematic review etc.)

How to evaluate websites

• A CAPS Guide to Evaluation

How to cite your sources

• APA, MLA, Chicago, etc.
• Cite your sources  (video)
• RefWorks
• Using RefWorks
• Using MyEBSCOhost
• APA Running Head Template (Douglas College Library)
• APA Running Head: Using MS Word 2007 (Learning Centre)
• APA Style Using MS Word 2007 (Xavier University Library)

How to avoid plagiarism

• Academic honesty - Douglas College
• Plagiarism: how to avoid it - Douglas College Learning Centre 
• 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 Office 2007 tutorials