Library Guides
Research tools
- How to recognize peer-reviewed/refereed/scholarly journals
- How to search RamCAT
- New Patron Empowerment Features in RamCat (what they are, how to use them)
- How to read a Library of Congress Call Number
- Things to know about Government Documents call numbers
- Library-related Distance Education Resources
- Online resources for citing print and electronic information
- Tools for searching the Internet
- Copyright Term and Public Domain in the United States (Cornell Copyright Center website)
Tutorials
- Basic Information Literacy Tutorials
- Using RamCat Basic Search
- Searching RamCat for items by their title or author
- Ebooks: How to use them
- Using databases to find articles about a topic
- Finding articles available at the Porter Henderson Library
- Getting better results with boolean searching
- Getting better results with subject searching
- Scholarly vs. popular periodicals (audio file) (developed by Vanderbilt University's Peobody Library)
- Plagiarism Court tutorial (audio file) (developed by Fairfield University's DiMenna-Nyselius Library)
Click on "Enter the Court (Flash version)" link
- Biology Library Tutorials
- Using databases to find articles about a topic
- Finding articles available at the Library
- Getting better results with boolean searching
- Getting better results with subject searching
- Scholarly vs. popular periodicals (audio file) (developed by Vanderbilt University's Peobody Library)
- Plagiarism Court tutorial (audio file) - (developed by Fairfield University's DiMenna-Nyselius Library)
Click on "Enter the Court (Flash version)" link - Biology resources
- Nursing Library Tutorials
- Searching RamCat for information about a topic
- Finding e-books and electronic documents in RamCat
- Using WorldCat and TexShare to find items near you
- Using databases to find articles about a topic
- How to track down an article when no full-text is available
- Getting better results with Boolean searching
- Finding nursing articles witih subject searching
- Getting items through Interlibrary loan
- Scholarly vs. popular periodicals (audio file) (developed by Vanderbilt University's Peobody Library)
- Plagiarism Court tutorial (audio file) (developed by Fairfield University's DiMenna-Nyselius Library)
Click on "Enter the Court (Flash version)" link
- Effective 8/14/2009, the University of Texas has removed the TILT information literacy tutorial, and therefore ASU can no longer provide access to it. Those interested in TILT can either use the ASU multimedia Information Literacy Tutorial provided on this web page, or they can access one of the following 3 adaptations of TILT
