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• Articles: Guide to Getting Full-Text
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• (External) Articles: Scholarly vs Popular - from Vanderbilt Univ.
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• World of Engineering Information: Part One: Introduction to Peer-reviewed Journals
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• (External) The Information Cycle - A short movie on how information is created
• (External) You Quote it, You Note it! - Spend 10 minutes learning how to avoid plagiarism!
• (External) Plagiarism & Academic Integrity at Rutgers University – funny, but informative
• Web: Five Criteria for Evaluating Web Pages

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