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Online Tutorials and Guides

Osterlin Library Pathfinders:

Topical Guides to Information in the Osterlin Library
--from Food Safety and Fast Food Nation studies to Michigan Authors to Locating Speeches

7 Steps of Research
Step-by-step list of the research process at NMC's Osterlin Library
SearchPath
WMU's self-paced instructional tutorial on basic library and research skills
TILT
An interactive library tutorial designed to introduce students to information research sources and skills. Modules include an introduction to the Internet, selecting appropriate sources, searching databases and the WWW, and evaluating sources.
Research Roadmap
York Universities self-paced tutorial

Movies Highlighting Osterlin's Research Tools:

Using boolean and to broaden a search in WebCat
3-minute online "movie" showing a search in WebCat and how to get more results
How to Find Articles in Library Databases?
This can be a starting point or a refresher on the steps for searching for a periodical article to find articles on a topic. It used Academic OneFile as the demonstration database.
Do We Subscribe to Your Favorite Journal?
A short online movie showing how to search for our magazines, journals, and newspapers quickly via our website

How to Get into NoodleBib
Students often forget how to access NoodleBib - this short movie shows them how, and how to create a new account
How to Create a Citation in NoodleBib
As of 9/2007 NoodleBib has some great improvements. This 6-minute online movie shows the steps to cite a magazine article from an Osterlin database into a NoodleBib citation list
How to Print Citations from NoodleBib
Printing or exporting citations from NoodleBib is a quick task - this movie shows how
How to Insert a reading from a library database into Moodle
Online "movie" showing how to get a reading from a library database to appear as a resource in Moodle

Bare Bones
A basic tutorial on searching the web
Internet Detective
An interactive tutorial on evaluating the quality of Internet resources


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