Tutorials and Online Learning Guides
Featured Guides
How do articles get "peer reviewed"? What role does peer review play in research?
What is an article database? Learn the basic features found in these important search tools.
What is a wiki? How does the information get into Wikipedia? Find out what goes on behind-the-scenes.
What is a literature review? What purpose does it serve in research? What should you expect when writing one? Find out here.
Designed especially for those in the First Year Writing Program, LOBO's objective is to help familiarize you with the college research process.
This interactive guide highlights the main features of scholarly articles.
Cool Tools!
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LibX
Install this extension in your web browser to automatically generate lots of handy shortcuts that make searching the NCSU Libraries catalog easier. -
Library Article Linker
Found an article online and want to make sure the link works from home? Use this tool to create a URL that will work anywhere!
Learn more in:
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Biology
A guide to identifying, locating, and using scholarly information in the biological sciences at NCSU Libraries -
Business
Video tutorials and guides for business databases -
Design
Video tutorials for finding images and using ARTstor -
Education
Guide to education research, with video tutorials for the ERIC database
