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• 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

   

   

  Tags: research scholarly article BT
• Library Tutorial: 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

   

   

  Tags: research scholarly article BT
• Library Tutorial: Is it peer-reviewed?
  

  Let's say you have a journal article you found using Google Scholar and you think it's going to be really useful for your paper but your professor said you have to use peer-reviewed journal articles. How do you know if the journal article is peer-reviewed?

   

  Tags: peer-review journals BT
• Library Tutorial: Choosing a database
  

  If you need to find articles on a topic, a database is a good place to start. The library has hundreds of databases. How do you know where to start?

   

  Tags: databases BT selecting choosing
• Library Tutorial: 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.

  Tags: scholarly academic peer reviewed articles ebscohost BT
• Library Tutorial: 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.

  Tags: full-text articles databases BT
• Library Tutorial: Searching the Online Databases
  

  This tutorial will guide you through a database search and explain some of the techniques and features for conducting an effective search.

  Tags: searching databases BT research
• Library Tutorial: Getting a Book from the OSU Libraries
  

  Use this tutorial for a quick how-to on finding and borrowing books from the OSU Libraries.

  Tags: call numbers OSU library catalog catalog books locations keyword searching BT
• Library Tutorial: Book Citations
  

  In this tutorial, you will learn how to identify the different parts of a book citation, and how to use that information to track down a book.

  Tags: books search title author BT
• Library Tutorial: 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.

   

   

  Tags: citations MLA BT APA
• Library Tutorial: Breaking Down Your Assignment
  

  This tutorial will help you learn to identify the different parts of an assignment sheet or syllabus related to research planning.

  Tags: research planning assignment syllabus assignment planner timelines format requirements source requirements BT
• Library Tutorial: 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.

  Tags: exploration thesis formation preconceptions encyclopedias reference sources wikipedia BT
• Library Tutorial: 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.

  Tags: summarizing paraphrasing quoting BT
• Keywords 3
  

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

  Tags: searching search keywords audience rhetoric synonyms BT
• Keywords
  

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

  Tags: synonyms rhetoric audience keywords search searching BT
• Library Tutorial: Summit
  

  So what if the book you want is missing, damaged or already on loan to someone? Or what if you want something that OSU Libraries does not own at all?

  You have an easy option. It takes a little advanced planning (3-4) days but you can have books delivered to OSU from any of 36 academic libraries in the Pacific Northwest. It's called Summit.

  Summit is the catalog for a consortium of Oregon and Washington Libraries that share resources with each other. If you request a book from a Summit library, it will usually be here within 3-4 working days. This tutorial will guide you through the steps to get a book from Summit and what to do if the book you want is not in Summit.

  Tags: worldcat summit books BT
• Article Citations
  

  This tutorial will help you identify the different parts of an article citation.

  Tags: article citation fields BT
• E-journals
  

  This tutorial will describe how to use the OSU Libraries e-journals and different options for searching the e-journals.

  Tags: ejournals articles citations BT
• Author Searching
  

  Learn how to search by author to locate more specific articles.

  Tags: article citations authors BT
• Library Tutorial: Using Summit
  

  In this tutorial you will learn how to use the Summit catalog to order books from libraries across the Pacific Northwest.

  Tags: summit books big tutorial search BT
• WR Library Tutorial: Quiz
  

  You can take these self- assessments only once, When you are done, please email the certificate of completion to your instructor.

  Tags: quiz BT
• 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

   

   

  Tags: research scholarly article BT
• FW 107 : Is it peer-reviewed?
  

  Let's say you have a journal article you found using Google Scholar and you think it's going to be really useful for your paper but your professor said you have to use peer-reviewed journal articles. How do you know if the journal article is peer-reviewed?

   

  Tags: peer-review journals BT

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