Demos and Guides

• WR : Written English
  • WR 121 Tutorial 1: Getting Started With Your Research

    This tutorial will help you learn to identify the different parts of an assignment sheet or syllabus related to research planning and find out how to participate in research as a scholar.

  • WR 121 Tutorial 2: Exploring your topic

    This tutorial illustrates the importance of exploration before thesis formation, provides some easy ways to explore, and points out some things about Wikipedia that many people do not know.

  • WR 121 Tutorial 3: Using Sources to Research Your Topic

    This tutorial will help you to understand the difference between a variety of sources required for your assignment. You will learn how to use books, news articles, and scholarly articles effectively and how to find these sources using the library catalog and specialized databases.

  • WR 121 Tutorial 4: Keywords

    In this tutorial you will learn about how keyword searching works, and some things to consider during your search process.

  • WR 121 Tutorial 5: Using One Good Source to Find More

    This tutorial will help you troubleshoot and refine your searches. It will help you take one good source and turn it into more.

• Research Tutorial

  Confused about where to start? Not sure how things work in The Valley Library? The OSU Libraries Research Tutorial can help you. This tutorial's modular approach lets you review the entire scholarly research process from start to finish, or focus on individual skills and concepts.

• Tutorial for Computerized Information in Agriculture

  Planning, Searching and Learning & Evaluating. Each component covers different concepts, techniques/skills, and learning strategies needed in library research in agriculture and in general.

• DIY Research

  Blog-based tutorials to help at the point of need.

• Keeping Current with Research

  Learn about social bookmarking, bibliographic management software, blogs, wikis, search alerts and feeds to help you keep up with and manage information for your research areas.

• Using Endnote

  EndNote is a personal citation/bibliography manager software program that helps researchers organize references in a database, which can be used to format citation and create bibliographies automatically in word processing software.

• Library Services Guide

  The Library Services Guide provides a brief review of services available in the library. It is available in English and in the following languages:
  
  Arabic | Bulgarian | Chinese | Croatian | German | Indonesian | Italian | Japanese | Serbian | Spanish | Thai | Vietnamese

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