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General Library Information:

This group of tutorials will provide information on such things as navigating the Burritt Library website, library services, accessing specific journals and books, etc.

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• Overview of the Library Website
• How to get a PIN (Library Password)
• How to log on from home
• Using Digital Course Reserves
• E-Journal Locator- Demonstrates using the E-Journal Locator tool to find E-journals owned by the Burritt Library
• Citation Linker - Demonstrates using Citation Linker to search a bibliographic citation (e.g., author, title, date, etc.) and find the text of the article
• Library of Congress Classification Outline - Handy guide to the call number ranges for books, etc. in particular subjects (ex., psychology).

Finding Scholarly/Academic Articles and Book Reviews:

Here you will learn how to search easily and more effectively as well as how to search historical and scholarly article databases.

Academic Search Premier (EBSCO) (full-length tutorial) - ASP is a good starting place for research since it covers most academic disciplines and subjects.

• Getting to Academic Search Premier
• Performing a search
• Understanding results

America: History and Life (AHL) or Historical Abstracts

• AHL: How to find Book Reviews (full-length tutorial)
  Getting to America: History and Life or Historical Abstracts databases
  Performing a search
  Understanding results
  Find the full text book review
  
  
• AHL: How to find Articles (full-length tutorial)
  Getting to America: History and Life or Historical Abstracts databases
  Performing a search
  Understanding results
  Find the full text article
  

JSTOR (full-length tutorial)

• Getting to JSTOR
• Performing a search
• Understanding results
  

Project Muse (full-length tutorial)

• Getting to Project Muse
• Performing a search
• Understanding results
  

Differences between scholarly and popular sources

Scholarly Articles Online

Examples of popular periodicals

Examples of scholarly journals

Boolean searching

Sample search strategies

Finding Newspaper Articles:

• Using the iCONN Newsstand to find online newspaper articles

Using Online Catalogs:

Use these to search for books, videos, etc., not articles

CONSULS

• Author
  Getting to CONSULS
  Performing a search
  Understanding results
• Title
  Getting to CONSULS
  Performing a search
  Understanding results
• Keyword
  Getting to CONSULS
  Performing a search
  Understanding results

WorldCat

• Getting to WorldCat
• Performing a search
• Understanding results
  
  

Borrowing from Other Libraries:

What to do if the materials are not available at the Burritt Library

Interlibrary loan (ILL)

Requesting Books owned by one of the other CT State University campuses
Requesting Books NOT owned by the other CT State University campuses

Requesting Articles

Primary Sources: What they are and how to find them

What are Primary Sources?

Historical databases that contain Primary Sources

Sample keyword searches for Primary Sources in CONSULS

What are Secondary Sources?

Historical Proquest Newspaper databases (Hartford Courant, New York Times, Chicago Tribune)

• Getting to Historical Proquest Newspaper databases
• Performing a search
• Understanding results
  

Readers' Guide Retrospective

• Getting to Readers' Guide Retrospective
• Performing a search
• Understanding results
  

BILT (Basic Information Literacy Tutorial)
This interactive tutorial will teach you to explore, research and evaluate online resources.