Research Tools
The main benefit of starting your searches from the library homepage.
What is quicker, easier access to full text of articles?
You read an article while writing a paper but didn't quote, paraphrase or directly refer to it in the text of the paper. Does it belong in your References page?
No.
This type of article uses scientific terminology instead of conversational terminology
What is a scholarly article?
A quick way to get live answers to simple library questions that's available every day.
What is the library's Live Chat service found on the library homepage?
What is CINAHL Plus with Full Text
You quoted this article in your paper:
Arnec, A., & Lavbic, D. (2017). Social network aided plagiarism detection. British Journal of Educational Technology, 48(1), 113-126. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjet.12345
Something else is necessary for APA format.
What is an In-text Citation? Examples:
Arnec and Lavbic (2017) or
(Arnec & Lavbic, 2017)
A publication process by which every article is reviewed by at least 2-3 experts in the field who decide if the article should be revised, published, or denied.
What is peer review?
A librarian who understands all that Nursing research stuff.
Who is Anita Slack, Life & Health Sciences librarian?
You're using a photograph that you took yourself in your paper. What do you need to do next?
What is citing your work in the same way you'd cite someone else's work?
A quick but not foolproof way to see results in databases that are peer reviewed.
What is clicking the Peer Review limiter in a database?
Best place to find APA formatting help when the library is closed and the faculty are sleeping?
What is the Citation Tools page available from the library homepage?
A database for searching the medical (as opposed to nursing) literature.
What is MEDLINE Complete?
This part of your research paper that exists to help your readers find your sources.
What is the References page?
Name the type of article includes sections like "literature review," "methods," "discussion" and "results."
What is scholarly?
Where to go when you need Writing Help (including going over the citations for a whole paper)?
A large database for searching all literature related to Life or Health sciences.
T/F Putting your paper through TurnItIn before it's due is cheating and carries penalties.
FALSE! In fact, I find this to be a valuable revision tool.
Somewhere to check if you've looked at many clues and still can't decide if the article is peer reviewed.
What is the journal homepage's submission guidelines or information pages about the review process?
The good news about library databases and research.