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General Information

• Reference Librarians are here to help! Visit us, call us, email us, IM us or chat with us!
• Library hours
• Finding It! A Research Skills Tutorial: A self-paced tutorial in eight chapters. Covers the basics of research as well as how to avoid plagiarism, paraphrase correctly and cite your sources.
• Collaboratories: Information about places for groups to study in the library.

Background Information

Gale Virtual Reference Library

• Searches a variety of different online dictionaries and encyclopedias.
• A great source for background information on a variety of topics.

Databases

Academic Search Premier

• Use to find articles from magazines and journals
• Offers full text for over 1,200 academic journals on all subjects.

Proquest Research Library

• Use to find articles in magazines and journals
• Offers full text for over 1,700 academic, social sciences, humanities, general science, and history journals.

JSTOR

• Provides full-text of over 450 scholarly articles in a variety of disciplines.
• Typically, coverage of a journal starts with its first issue and ends 2-7 years ago

Library Catalog

• Search for books in The University Libraries.
• Use the search connector "and" to do a keyword search for more than one term.

Searching the Web

Guidelines for Evaluating Web Resources
Suggestions for how to make sure the stuff you get off the web is quality material. From our online tutorial Finding It!

Citing Your Sources

MLA Style

• UNCG's quick guide to citing books, articles and websites
• To cite an article in a database, look at the section entitled Electronic Resources

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