Services for Undergraduate Students
Research Help
- Find Library Resources by Discipline
- Find Library Liaisons to WMU Departments and Colleges
- Learn how to format your papers and citations with Writing Style Guides.
- Use Refworks Citation Manager. Learn more
- Locate Journals owned by WMU
Tutorials & User Guides
- ResearchPath. This tutorial will help you learn essential, time-saving library research skills.
- Use our LibGuides to find guides for subjects and classes, and resources by type and format.
- Connect from home. Need help connecting to library databases while off campus? We have tips and tricks to help you connect. If you live off campus and need help with connecting to library databases, then we have some tips and tricks to help you connect.
- Guide to Popular, Trade and Scholarly Sources. Breakdown of differences between these types of sources.
- Scholarly vs. Popular Periodicals. Video from Vanderbilt University showing differences between these types of periodicals. (3:12)
- Evaluating Web Sites and Web pages. Five criteria for evaluating Web pages and Web sites.
- You Quote it, You Note it! Fun, five-minute tutorial on how to avoid plagiarism. From Vaughan Memorial Library, Acadia University.
- Plagiarism & Academic Integrity at Rutgers University. Excellent tutorial about plagiarism, with audio and movie clips.
Services
- Borrowing Books and Other Materials
- Document Delivery
- Interlibrary Loan
- Renew Books Online – sign in to Library Catalog, Interlibrary Loan or MeLCat
