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Table of Contents:
BC Library E-Tutorials
BC Library Online Guides
Library Research E-Tutorials
Search the Web

This short YouTube video explains how the Brooklyn College community can use CLICS to borrow books from other CUNY campus libraries.
Use this guide to help you locate the full (complete) text of journal articles at the Brooklyn College Library and beyond.
This short YouTube video explains how to use a journal index to find articles on your research topic at the Brooklyn College Library.
This short YouTube video explains how to find the full text of articles on your research topic at the Brooklyn College Library
This guide will help you use journal indexes available at the Brooklyn College Library to find published articles on your subject of interest.
Search for books in CUNY+, the library catalog for Brooklyn College and all of CUNY, or see if your book is available at a public library.
This short YouTube video explains how to search for books and more in CUNY+, the Brooklyn College Library's online catalog.
Instructions for students, faculty, and staff to access library article databases and electronic resources from off-campus.
Check out the Library's new online orientation. It provides students with all of the information necessary to begin using the Brooklyn College Library.
CORE is an online guide to the process of identifying, locating, and evaluating different types and sources of information, from Purdue University.
CUNY's eight online tutorials provide guidance and practical exercises for developing information literacy and library research skills.
Information literacy skills covered in this tutorial--from the University of Wisconsin, Parkside--include developing research strategies, learning search techniques, and effectively evaluating resources.
An online tutorial to help students develop a research strategy, locate the necessary resources, and evaluate the information found, from Grand Valley State University.
An interactive tutorial to help hone your information literacy skills for more effective research, sponsored by the University of Texas.
This site, from the University of South Carolina Beaufort, features a basic, concise tutorial on searching the web.
A guide to evaluating the quality and reliability of websites, from Cornell University.
A quick and handy tutorial for using Google's advanced search to produce more relevant search results, from San Diego State University.

Google Scholar searches the Web for articles, books, and other scholarly materials in many different disciplines. Most searches return an assortment of citations, abstracts, and links to full text.

This link to Google Scholar requires off-campus users to authenticate and yields search results that indicate which articles are available electronically through the BC Library. To bypass authentication, go to http://scholar.google.com/.

From SUNY Albany, these tutorials include a basic internet guide as well as guides to researching on the internet, search engines, and web browsers.
Highly selective and annotated links to terrific resources appropriate for college-level research.
Selected web, database, and index resources arranged by subject, collected by Brooklyn College librarians.
Concise evaluation criteria for websites, with many examples, from New Mexico State University.

Last Modified: 2009-11-13 12:31:00