Using the Library
The library hours are posted in these two locations.
What are the library home page and at the library entrances?
These are the two levels of searches.
What are basic and advanced?
This database uses the power of a Google search but has scholarly sources.
What is Google Scholar?
This is the citation style used for the humanities.
What is MLA?
This button on the top right of the library home page allows you to contact a librarian.
What is the "Ask Us" button?
This tab allows you to search 75% of the databases and the YULIS catalog.
What is YUFind?
This feature narrows down your search results if there are too many.
What are filters?
This well-known humanities database features a text analyzer.
What is Jstor?
This is the citation style used for Psychology and sometimes the sciences.
What is APA?
You can book a study room by these two methods.
What is with the QR code on the door and from the website?
This tab searches books, ebooks, and media.
What is the YULIS catalog?
This feature allows you to change the order of your search results.
What is sorting?
This database is used for the biomedical sciences.
What is PubMed?
The library's citation guide can be found here.
What is the library home page?
This service allows you to borrow books from other libraries.
What is interlibrary loan (ILL)?
This tab has an "all subjects" option.
What is databases?
These subject "tags" help to identify the subject of a book or article in the catalog.
What are subject headings?
This database is helpful if you are researching education.
What is ERIC?
These two citation managers help you to create and store citations.
What are RefWorks and Zotero?
You would search this tab if you found a citation and wanted to check if the library subscribes to that particular journal.
What is journals?
This feature helps you to search for text within an article.
What is the control or command F key?
This proprietary database provides primary Jewish texts.
What is the Bar Ilan Responsa?
Rather than a direct quote, a way of summarizing content, which still needs to be cited.
What is paraphrasing?