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University Studies

UNS 101

Basic Library Services

• Reference Librarians are here to help! Visit us, call us, email us, or chat with us!
• Library hours
• Finding It! A Research Skills Tutorial : A self-paced tutorial in eight chapters. Learn how to prepare for a research paper, pick the right research tools, search for information in our online catalog, in periodical indexes and on the web, plus how to avoid plagiarism and cite your sources correctly!

Catalog and Electronic Databases

Library Catalog

• Use to find books and other materials in the library's collections.
• Use the search connector AND to connect the words of a keyword search
• Use the search connector OR to connect synonyms or related terms.
  • Ex: medicine and (alternative or traditional or complementary)
• Use a question mark to search on word roots:
  • Ex: culture bound syndrome? will find both singular and plural forms of the word syndrome

ProQuest Research Library

• Use to find articles from magazines and journals
• Offers full text for over 1,700 academic, social sciences, humanities, general science, and education journals
• AND and OR work the same way in this database. Instead of a question mark, use an asterisk: *

Complete list of databases

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