Demos & Guides

• WR : Written English Tutorials
  • 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 the various 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.

  • WR 222 Getting a Book from the OSU Libraries

    Use this tutorial for a quick how-to on finding, requesting (if necessary) and checking out books from the OSU Libraries.

  • WR 222 How to Find the Full Text of an Article from a Database

    So you are searching in an article database, and you find the abstract for an article you want, but the full article is nowhere to be found?  Don't get frustrated!  If the OSU Libraries have the article anywhere, you can frequently find it with just a couple of clicks.  This tutorial will show you how.

  • WR 222 How to Limit to Scholarly Articles in EbscoHost Databases

    By checking a couple of boxes on a search form, you can improve your odds of finding the sources  that will work for an assignment requiring "peer-reviewed" or "scholarly" articles.  This tutorial shows you how.

    This trick won't guarantee that you find scholarly articles, but it will improve your odds by filtering out a lot of sources that are clearly not scholarly.

  • WR 222 How to get your book source

    We spend a lot of time talking about how to find articles and journals in the library, but that doesn't mean we're not a great place to find books!

    Here's how.

  • WR 222 How to use Google Scholar without Paying for the Articles

    Google Scholar is a great place to scan across a lot of sources at once, but if it doesn't know that you have rights to access online articles and other sources from a library, it might send you to a page like this - which asks you to pay for the article you want:

    

    The journal in this example is in the OSU Libraries' collection, and OSU students, staff and faculty have the right to access it (and articles in lots of other journals) from any computer with an Internet connection.  With a few adjustments to your preferences, you can tell Google Scholar to point you to the resources that the library provides for the OSU community.

  • WR 327 Tutorial: Keywords

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

• News and Communication

  This tutorial shows some of the Valley Library's undergraduate learning initiatives.

• 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.

• 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. This guide provides an overview of EndNote along with training, support and purchase information for EndNote.

• 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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