Research Help: Ready-made tutorials and videos

In this video, students will learn to

• Develop a research topic and keywords.
• Use special search symbols (ex: boolean operators and truncation tools). 
• Apply limiters to narrow results.

In this video, students will learn to

• Fing articles using subject headings.
• Find cited references.
• Importance of shelf browsing.

In this video, students will learn to

• Connect Google Scholar to the William H. Hannon Library. 
• Find full-text articles using citations. 

In this video, students will learn to

• Define subject headings as main themes.
• Find better terminology using a thesaurus.  
• Combine thesaurus terms using boolean operators.

In this video, students will learn to

• Find subject headings through article records of relevant sources.
• Perform a search with those subject headings.

Advanced Search Tips Tutorial

Accessible Word Document Version: Advanced Search Tips Tutorial

Key Points: Advanced Search Tips Tutorial

Suggested Assignments: Advanced Search Tips Tutorial

In this tutorial, students will learn to

• Implement keyword and subject heading searches. 
• Browse call numbers for books online.
• Use citation chasing to find other relevant sources.
• Gain access to sources the library doesn't own using Interlibrary Loans.