Research Tutorials

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General Tutorials ...

• Path: Lighting Your Way From Research to Writing
• What is plagiarism? (4:56 min, Flash) Note - was formerly Ch.7 in the FIRST Tutorial, now Ch.8 in the Path tutorial and you must login to save/email your progress.
• Citation Styles (3:47 min, Flash) transcript
• Course reserves (1:50min, Flash)
• New items in the library (1:23 min, Flash)
• Searching UNC Library Express Catalog (2:53 min, Flash, 5/31/10)
• Searching our library catalog:
  • find a book by keyword (1:29 min, Flash)
  • find a book by title (1:15 min, Flash)
  • find a book by author (1:28 min, Flash)
  • limit your search by format (1:43 min, Flash)
  • renew your items (1:36 min, Flash)
• Ways to get what you need:
  • Find full text of a journal article (2:56 min, Flash)
  • Get a book the library does not own (3:04 min, Flash)
  • Get a journal article the library doesn't own (2:52 min, Flash)
  • Filling out ILL requests (4:14 min, Flash, 5/31/10) transcript
• Research Intensive Tutorials:
  • Peer Review in 5 Minutes (Video 5:11) from NCSU Libraries
  • Lit Review Overview for Grad Students (Video 9:38) from NCSU Libraries
  • Anatomy of a Scholarly Article (Video 9:38) from NCSU Libraries
  • Article Databases in 5 minutes (Video 4:53) from NCSU Libraries

Subject Specific Tutorials ....

for Social Sciences

• Finding Primary Sources in the Social Sciences (4:45 min, Flash)
• Finding Primary Sources in Communication Studies (5:09 min, Flash)

for Using Lexis-Nexis

• Find broadcast media transcripts (2:07 min, Flash)
• Find print media reports(2:22 min,Flash)
• Limit your search by country (2:50 min, Flash)

for Health Sciences Resources

• Find a nursing article (3:53, Flash)
• Intro to PubMed and Journal Finder (2 min)

for Legal and Government Resources

• Finding North Carolina Bills (? min, Flash)
• Finding a Court Case using LexisNexis Academic (3 min, Flash)
• Finding legislative history of a federal law using LexisNexis Congressional (? min, Flash)
• Find basic legislative history in LexisNexis Congressional (1:38 min, Flash)
• Finding a bill by number in Thomas (< 1 min, Flash)
• Searching by keyword in Thomas (< 1 min, Flash)

for Statistical and Numeric Data Resources

• Euromonitor Global Market Info Database (1.55 min, Flash)
• World Development Indicators Online (2.27 min, Flash)
• SimplyMap Quick Start Tutorial (1.56 min, Flash)
• SimplyMap Tutorial on Finding Specific Census Tracts (2.54 min, Flash)
• Statistical Warehouse Tutorial for using PowerUser mode (2.31 min, Flash)