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Use the Library

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Locate Articles, Books, Journals, Magazines, and Newspapers

  • Articles: Guide to Getting Full-Text
  • Articles: Guide to Finding Articles in the Library
  • Articles: Scholarly vs Popular - from Vanderbilt Univ.
  • Articles: Guide to Popular, Trade, and Scholarly Sources
  • Articles: Guide to Understanding a Citation
  • Articles: Guide to E-mailing PDFs
  • Books: Finding a Book
  • Books: Guide to Library Call Numbers
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  • Library Catalogs Beyond WMU
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Cite & Evaluate Information

  • Writing Style Guides
  • The Information Cycle - A short movie on how information is created
  • You Quote it, You Note it! - Spend 10 minutes learning how to avoid plagiarism
  • Plagiarism & Academic Integrity at Rutgers University – funny, but informative
  • Web: Five Criteria for Evaluating Web Pages
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