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PLANNING YOUR RESEARCH

  1. Analyzing Your Assignment
  2. Selecting Your Topic
  3. Focusing Your Topic
  4. Finding Background Information
  5. Identifying Information Needs and Sources

FINDING BOOKS

  1. Getting Started Using the SCHOLAR Catalog
  2. Searching SCHOLAR by Author and Title
  3. Reading a Catalog Record
  4. Searching SCHOLAR by Topic

FINDING ARTICLES

  1. An Introduction to Periodical Literature
  2. Finding the Full Text of Known Articles
  3. Finding and Selecting a Research Database
  4. Searching for Articles by Topic
  5. Requesting Articles from Other Libraries

SEARCHING THE WEB

  1. The Internet Defined
  2. What's On the Web
  3. Web Search Tools

EVALUATING INFORMATION

  1. An Introduction to Evaluating Information
  2. Evaluating Content
  3. Evaluating Information on the Web

 
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