Tutorials & Handouts 

This short slideshow will save time: learn quick strategies for finding books and articles! Click the "Full" option to see it full-screen. Produced by reference and instruction librarian Joyce Miller.

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Research Steps: This Web page offers a written version of "Research Steps." Also see the PDF handout in the box below.

Library Research Tutorials - Good overview of databases, research strategies, more, from Drexel University.

This handout outlines the basic strategies of database research, similar to the slide show above. You can print this PDF document. 

ACC Library's tutorial offering suggestions on evaluating Web sites, and offers a four-step approach to effective Web searching. (Click "full" to see this show full-screen.)

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Searching the Web: Entertaining animated, narrated cartoon tutorial from Colorado State University Libraries.

Your Research Tool Box - This site from the University of Kentucky Libraries offers 10-minute videos on starting your research and more.

LibCasts - These video/handout tutorials from Dalhousie University in Canada offer well-explained introductions to research and databases. Try the Research Basics one, though you will not be able to take the quiz at the end. The handout version is also very good.

Library Research Guide - This Web page was created by librarians at Stony Brook University Libraries. 

Click the ToonDoo cartoon book to see it full-screen!

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Click the tab above to see a slide show about the ACC Library. Produced by reference and instruction librarian Joyce Miller.

Online Catalog Tutorial -  This very short narrated video shows the easiest way to search ACC Library's online catalog for books, DVDs and videos. Produced and narrated by reference and instruction librarian Joyce Miller.

Here are tutorials for popular reference databases:

Gale Virtual Reference Library: This narrated tutorial shows how to find printable reference books chapters from more than 250 online reference books. Good place to start for most research topics. (Note: ACC Library reference books with a large blue "e" on the spine are full-text in this database.)

Credo Reference Library: This page links to descriptions and tours of the Credo Reference Library database, which offers more than 3 million reference book chapters from 362 titles from 60+ publishers; offers advanced search, concept map for visual searching. Good for overviews of subjects.

CQ Researcher: This two-page sheet describes the main search features of this database. which offers lengthy reports on current "hot topics" in the news.

To link to the reference databases themselves, click here.

Print this easy-to-follow guide to the EBSCO databases, with screen shots and search tips. Written by ACC instruction librarian Joyce Miller. For online video tutorials, see box below.

Note: Most databases will create a citation for you. For the EBSCO databases, ion an article's description page, click the icons (Print, Email, Save) then choose the citation style (MLA, APA, etc.)

EBSCO Database Tutorials:   Listen to this 6-minute tutorial for time-saving tips on searching the ACC Library's many EBSCO article databases, such as Academic Search Premier, Business Resource Center or CINHAL. For EBSCO's Integrated SearchSee EBSCO's Integrated Search database tutorial, or this written version with screen shots. For PowerPoints and more, see EBSCO's Tutorials link. 

ProQuest Tutorials: These are designed for specific ProQuest databases such as ABI/Inform, but shows the various feastures common to all proQuest databases, including the New York Times, New York Times Historical, and ProQuest Central. Narrated with a charming English accent.

WilsonSelectPlus: Try these Basic and Advanced tutorials created by the Alliance Libary System of Illinois. Offers good general search tips.

JSTOR Help - This links to a section of help sheets.

CQ Researcher: This two-page sheet describes the main search features of this database. which offers lengthy reports on current "hot topics" in the news.

Links to these databases are on the General Databases page.

Clearly done short video by a librarian at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. For more, see the University Library's Research Tutorials.

Briskly done tutorial on evaluating web sites by librarians Patricia Watkins and Suzie Roth from Embry Riddle Aeronautical University's Prescott Library in Prescott, Arizona. Three minutes long. 

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