Library Guides & Tutorials
- Searchpath (tutorial)
- Criminal Justice (tutorial)
- Getting Help for Library Reserves (PDFs)
- Getting Help for Interlibrary Loans (PDF)
- Videos to Jumpstart Your Research (videos)
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Articles, Books, Journals, Magazines, and Newspapers
- Articles: Guide to Getting Full-Text
- Articles: Guide to Finding Articles in the Library
- Articles: Scholarly vs Popular - from Vanderbilt Univ.
- Articles: Guide to Popular, Trade, and Scholarly Sources
- Articles: Guide to Understanding a Citation
- Articles: Guide to E-mailing PDFs
- Books: Finding a Book
- Books: Electronic Books & Collections
- Library Catalog: Guide to Searching the Library Catalog
- Library
Catalogs Beyond WMU
- Journals,
Magazines, and Newspapers: Finding them by their Title
- World of Engineering Information: Part One: Introduction to Peer-reviewed Journals
- World of Engineering Information: Part Two: Introduction to Trade Magazines
- Writing Style Guides
- The Information Cycle - A short movie on how information is created
- You Quote it, You Note it! - Spend 10 minutes learning how to avoid plagiarism!
- Plagiarism & Academic Integrity at Rutgers University – funny, but informative
- Web: Five Criteria for Evaluating Web Pages
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help using Research Databases
- Applied Science & Technology Abstracts (ASTA) (videos)
- ERIC Database
- ERIC (videos)
- RefWorks, Citation Management Software (videos)
- Scopus (videos)
- Web of Science (videos)
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Resources by Type or Format
- Biographical Information
- Book Reviews
- Careers & Employment
- Children's Books
- Company Information
- Dictionaries
- Dissertations & Theses
- Encyclopedias
- Images
- Internet & Web Searching
- Movie Reviews
- Music Scores & Recordings
- News & Current Events
- Non- English Resources
- Plays & Play Reviews
- Poems
- Primary Documents
- Quotations
- Resumé Guides
- Short Stories
- Slides
- Videos & Films