Tutorials & Guides

• FW : Fisheries and Wildlife Tutorials
  • FW 107 : What is a scholarly article?

    This tutorial will help you learn to identify a scholarly article. At the end of this tutorial, you will be able to

    • Name some of the major characteristics of a scholarly article
    • Name and identify the parts of a scholarly article

     

     

• ALS : Academic Learning Services Tutorials
  • ALS 199 Citations 101

    When you have completed this tutorial you will be able to:

    • Identify some standard citation styles.
    • Use citation tools in library research databases to stay organized and cite accurately.
    • Identify the bibliographic information you need to cite academic sources accurately.
    • Seek out additional help when you need it.

     

     

• ENG : English Tutorials
  • ENG 200 Creating a bibliography from a Zotero Library

    Here is a quick tutorial showing you how to create a bibliography from a Zotero library.  Use this method if you want to create a bibliography of some or all of the items in a library.

    You would not use this method if you are generating citations as you write - this will create a standalone bibliography of resources.

  • ENG 200 Homework #4: Source Types

    The first step in evaluating a source is knowing something about the type of source you're evaluating.  It makes no sense to evaluate something against standards that it is not trying to meet.  In this tutorial, we will look at two important source types in literary studies to understand the standards they are trying to meet.

  • ENG 200 Zotero: Building a Collaborative, Annotated Bibliography

    In this tutorial you will learn how to add items to a group library in Zotero.

• CTL : CTL Tutorials
  • CTL 000 Embedding an RSS feed in your Blackboard site

    Sometimes the best way to point students to the information you want them to use is to pull it into your Blackboard site from around the web. 

    With a tool like Google Reader, you can do this with any site that offers an RSS feed for you to use. This tutorial shows you how to do this using the feed generated by a library search tool, but you can use the same technique to embed feeds from blogs, from newspapers, from academic journals, and from an (almost) countless host of other types of resources.

  • CTL 000 Linking to a library resource search from your Blackboard site

    This tutorial shows you how to do a meta-search of library resources (including books, articles, government documents and more) and add a link to the search results to a Blackboard site.  Use this to provide your students with a list of resources to browse on their own.

• WR : Written English Tutorials
  • WR Finding a Book in the Valley Library

    This tutorial is designed to walk you through the process of searching for a book, and finding it in the Valley Library collections.

    This tutorial is informational only.  It has no quizzes.

  • WR 121 Before You Come to the Library

    To get the most out of your WR121 library visit, this tutorial will help you distinguish between the different source types you will encounter in college-level research.  This tutorial also introduces how to use keywords to find sources for your research.

  • WR 121 Exploring Your Topic

    In college-level research,it is important to gather information before selecting a topic, or narrowing to a thesis.  This tutorial introduces several tools you can use to explore your topic, and shows why exploration is important in an academic research process.

  • WR 222 Getting a Book from the OSU Libraries

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

  • 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 Quoting, Paraphrasing & Summarizing

    This tutorial will help you learn the difference between quoting, paraphrasing and summarizing and when you should use these different techniques in your writing.

  • WR 327 Tutorial: Keywords

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

• COMM : Communication Tutorials
  • COMM 111 What is a scholarly article?

    This tutorial will help you learn to identify a scholarly article. At the end of this tutorial, you will be able to

    • Name some of the major characteristics of a scholarly article
    • Name and identify the parts of a scholarly article

     

     

• 1Search Advanced

  This tutorial will guide you through some of the search features of 1Search.

• Advanced Zotero

  In this tutorial you will learn more advanced features of this free web-based citation management tool.  We will cover how to store PDFs in Zotero, how to import and export from EndNote, how to add in more citation styles, how to take notes and annotate in Zotero, how to sync Zotero with multiple computers, and how to use Zotero Groups.

• Introduction to Zotero

  In this tutorial you will learn the basics about this free web-based citation management tool, which can be used for any discipline (sciences, social sciences, humanities) to save citations and pdfs, as well as incorporate citations into a Word document. We will cover how to set up a Zotero library, how to put citations into your library, how to use Word to cite as you go, and how to back up your data.  This tutorial will use screenshots and screencasts produced at OSU and at other universities, to cover these basic topics.  Feel free to go straight through the whole tutorial in one sitting or to jump around using the tabs as your schedule allows.

• IRIS (Illinois Researcher Information Service) Database

  The IRIS database (Illinois Researcher Information Service) is a subscription database paid for by the Oregon State University Libraries.  It provides searching for thousands of federal and private funding programs that support research, educational and professional activities, travel, publishing, seminars, equipment, and more in the humanities, social sciences and sciences. The database is updated daily and can be searched in a variety of ways. 

• 1Search
  1Search, our new search engine, lets you search most of our full-text online journal content plus the library catalog.
• After You Graduate - Career and Job Search Information
  Information to help you start your career and get a job after you graduate.
• After you graduate - Finding Information
  A guide to resources available for graduates of OSU who can no longer access library resources from off-campus.
• BibTeX Guide
  This guide provides an overview of using the reference manager, BibTeX.
• Ecampus Library Services
  Information about library services for graduate students taking Ecampus courses and instructors teaching Ecampus courses.
• Electronic Notetaking
  This guide was created for Moving Away from Paper: Useful Practices for Online & Mobile Notetaking Workshop at OSU Libraries.
• EndNote Guide
  This guide provides an overview of EndNote along with training, support and purchase information for EndNote.
• Extension Service Materials
  OSU Archives collections related to the Extension Service.
• Finding Book & Film Reviews
  This guide identifies databases, reference books and internet sites for finding film and book reviews.
• Finding Images
  This guide identifies websites, databases, catalogs, and other reference sources for fining images of people, places and things. It also includes information on locating reproductions or illustrations of art works.
• Glossary of Library Locations/Services/Vocabulary
  Glossary of library-related places, services and vocabulary.
• Graduate Student Services
  This guide provides OSU graduate students with resources for study and research at the OSU Libraries.
• Grants
  Resources for finding grants and writing grants.
• Keeping Current with Research
  OSU Libraries Keeping Current tutorial pages for OSU faculty, staff, graduate students and undergraduates.
• LibQual
• Managing publications for your dossier & Showcasing your work.
  This page provides ideas for managing lists of publications in your dossier and ideas for tracking their impact after publication.
• Newspapers
  This is a guide to OSU Libraries newspapers-current & historical holdings. It was co-authored & co-developed by Lindy Brown.
• Nexus Tablets at Valley Library
  Intro to using the Nexus 7.
• OSU Libraries' Ebooks
  Ebook resources at Oregon State University Libraries.
• OSU Libraries' How To Guide
  This is a guide intended to help anyone start their library research.
• Open Access at OSU
  This guide provides an overview of the activities happening this year during Open Access Week, as well as resources that you can use to find out more about open access.
• Open Access for Graduate Students
  This guide provides an overview about Open Access, including definition, OA journals, publishing tips and whay a graduate student should be interested.
• Persistent Links
  How to create a link from Blackboard to an article in an online database.
• Publishing for Graduate Students
  This is a guide that supports a workshop for graduate students on approaches to publishing their work.
• Research Skills for Undergraduates
  OSU Libraries workshops for undergraduate students.
• Tips for New Archival Researchers
  Every institution has its own systems, guidelines, and quirks. For that reason, you'll find that your research experience may vary significantly from archive to archive. We'd recommend contacting the institution directly if you want to know specifics about their rules or regulations; however, there are some general principles that most institutions follow. If you are interested in some of these "across the board" basics, this is the guide for you.
• Traveler's German
  This page is a collection of resources for students who are planning to study abroad in Germany and would like some language basics.
• Using Primary Sources in Your Research
  Primary sources are rich resources -- full of historical nuances, unfiltered information, uncensored observations. While your research can gain breadth and depth by using archival materials, it can be a bit tricky to access the items... Remember that we want you to use our collections, find those historical gems, and walk away happy and satisfied! This guide will provide guidance on how to access the historical materials in the OSU collections.
• Zotero Research Guide
  This guide provides an overview of Zotero along with training and support information for Zotero.

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