Research Guides
The library has so many resources available - how do you know which one you need?
A great place to begin is a Research Guide. You are looking at one right now - Your Guide to the Library is a Research Guide introducing different resources that are available through the library. Most guides are more specific, and offer resources meant to help with a particular subject or class. They offer a tailored road map of the library's resources so that you can get started right away on looking for sources, rather than trying to figure out what database will have what you need. Most guides also link to the contact info for the subject librarian that created them in case you have questions.
- Research Guides
Curated collections of resources for particular topics.
Zotero
Zotero is a powerful citation management tool. It allows you to save sources for later, and does much of the work of writing citations and bibliographies with just a few clicks. Once set up, it can save you time and stress when completing research papers and essays.
- Download Zotero
Visit the Zotero website to download the software. - Zotero Research Guide
This guide provides assistance with using the Zotero bibliographic management tool. - Research Consultations
If Zotero is not downloading correctly or if you would like help learning to use it, Liorah Golomb and Claire Curry are both knowledgeable about the software.You also can schedule a session with your subject librarian. - Event Calendar
Check out the library's event calendar to see if there are any upcoming Zotero workshops.
Discover!
You can use the Discover search box to find journals, articles, books, eBooks, newspaper articles and more. Discover checks everything the library has on record. If we didn't have Discover, every time we did research we would have to search through each database one at a time. With Discover, you can search in one place to find a variety of sources. It's just like how Google searches many, many different websites at once. To make your search more accurate, you should try to using a few keywords as your search terms in Discover!
Advanced Search Strategies Tutorial Video
More Tutorials
There are many more video tutorials than are displayed in this guide. Check out the library's tutorial page to see the full collection.
