Students

These resources will help you to access and manage information. Information skills will help you to produce better work. We also provide specialized instruction for graduate students, international students and ESL students. Our First Year Experience Librarian helps new students access library resources at UC. Our online guide Bearcats on the Road is designed especially for student athletes.

Find information  |  Evaluate information  | Use information ethically and legally

Find information

• Course Guides - research help for a specific class or assignment, e.g. English Composition 102.
• How Do I... - practical tips on using libraries, from researching a topic and finding materials to getting research and technical assistance.
• How to choose and use OhioLINK resources.
• University Libraries Workshop Series - research skills and software workshops.

Evaluate information

• Evaluating Web Content - this recently updated guide from the University al Abany will help you to identify the type of site you are visiting and to evaluate its content.
• The Good, The Bad & The Ugly: or, Why It's a Good Idea to Evaluate Web Sources. (New Mexico State University Libraries)

• Journals: Popular vs. Scholarly (PDF) - a comparison of popular and scholarly journals.
• Critically Analyzing Information Sources - a Cornell University guide.
• Libraries vs. the Internet (PDF)
• NEW! Research Minutes: How to Identify Scholarly Journal Articles (a YouTube video produced by the Cornell University Library)
• NEW! Research Minutes: How to Identify Substantive News Articles (a YouTube video produced by the Cornell University Library)

Use information ethically and legally

• What is Plagiarism? - plagiarism avoidance tips and information on getting help from libraries and writing centers at UC.

Citation style guides

• APA Style: Electronic references - regularly updated page on citing electronic media from APA Style.org
• NEW! APA Crib Sheet (PDF document) - this consise document complied by Dr. Abel Scribe is based on the fifth edition of the APA Publication Manual.
• Chicago Manual of Style Citation Guide from Ohio State University Libraries
• Citing Sources - Duke University's guidelines for citing sources.
• How to Cite Internet Sources - an excellent guide from the Yale College Writing Center.
• MLA and APA Style Guides from THE OWL at Purdue University.
• Research and Documentation Online - The information on this site also appears in the print booklet Research and Documentation in the Electronic Age, Fourth Edition, by Diana Hacker.
• Sources - Dartmouth College guide on citing sources. Included APA and MLA guidelines and examples on source types most frequently used in papers by undergraduate writers.

Citation Tools

• Free Online Citation Help - sites that will help you to create your 'works cited' page.
  • EasyBib, Citation Machine, RapidCite, Zotero (works as part of the Firefox web browser)
• RefWorks - RefWorks users can create their own personal database by importing references from online databases. This web-based product provided by University Libraries can automatically format both in-text and works cited references.

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