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General Topics

• Library & Research Skills

  • Evaluating Sources
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  • Research Basics Tutorial
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  • Search Strategies Made Easy Tutorial
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• Articles

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• Books

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• Citations & Plagiarism

  • Chicago Manual of Style
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  • Citation Tutorial
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  • RefWorks
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  • Research & Documentation Online
  • Should I Use or Cite Wikipedia?

• Database Tutorials

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  • To see a list of all tutorials, go here.

• InterLibrary Loan

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• Graduate Students

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  • Highly Cited References

Subject Areas

• Arts & Humanities

  • Art Research: Case Study ~ 12th century Lombard sculpture
  • Biographical information
  • Book reviews
  • History Resources from the Boston Public Library (BPL)
  • Literary Criticism
  • Literature Resources from the Boston Public Library (BPL)
  • Newspapers
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• Business

  • Biographical information
  • Company and Industry Research
  • Company IT Strategy
  • Country Reports
  • Finding a case, law, or regulation in LexisNexis Academic and Westlaw Campus Research
  • Governmental Accounting and Standards Board (GASB)
  • Historical and Current Stock Prices
  • Industry Analysis
  • Local business data
  • Locating International Statistics
  • Locating US Financial and Economic Statistics
  • Newspapers
  • Nonprofit Management
  • State and Local Government Finances from US Census Bureau Data

• Science

  • Biographical information
  • Chemistry Sources Tutorial
  • e-Brary in Nursing Tutorial
  • Newspapers
  • Researching Chemists

• Social Science

  • Biographical information
  • Book reviews
  • Country reports tutorial
  • Education Statistics
  • Family Violence
  • Finding a case, law, or regulation in LexisNexis Academic and Westlaw Campus Research
  • Newspapers
  • Polling Resources
  • Researching US Immigration & American Ethnic Groups
  • United States Immigration/Emigration Statistics by Country of Origin