Online Tutorials

Please use these resources to help you - whether it be in finding the perfect source to get started, or in finding the guidance to finish up with perfect citations.  If you don't find what you are looking for and you need additional assistance, please click here to contact someone in the library.  We are always happy to help.
 
 

NC LIVE

Be A Better Searcher

Research Tips

Citation Help

Student Success Center Resources

 

NC LIVE

Executing a Simple Search in NC LIVE (Created by Moye Library Staff)

NetLibrary E-Books: Using E-Books for College Research (Created by Chris Hartman, Fort Lewis College)

Don't Google It, ASP It (Created by Richard Baer of Camosun College)  This tutorial explains the fundamental differences in using Google versus using Academic Search Premier from EBSCOHost in NC LIVE for your academic research.  Learn easy tips for finding peer-reviewd articles in ASP.

 

Be A Better Searcher

Searching Effectively Using Truncation (Video was created by Colorado State University Libraries)

Keyword Searching in Library Databases (Created by Chris Niemeyer, University of Missouri - St. Louis)

How to Use Connectors When Searching Databases This series of tutorials goes into Boolean searching, truncation, nesting and keyword searching.  (Created by Arizona State University Libraries)  

 

Research Tips

Peer-Reviewd in Five Minutes: What's So Special about Peer-Reviewed Articles? (This animated tutorial was created at NC State University)

Wikipedia: Beneath the Surface (Created by NC State University)

 

Citation Help

Plagiarism, Eh?: How to Recognize It and Get It Out of Your Life (Created by William Badke, Associate Librarian at Trinity Western University in 2007)

Need Help with MLA? (Created by The Hunter College Writing Across the Curriculum Program, Library, and ICIT)