Course Features
Course Highlights
This course features a set of Flash™ animation
tutorials on conducting library research.
Course Description
This freshman course explores the scientific publication cycle, primary vs. secondary sources, and online and in-print bibliographic databases; how to search, find, evaluate, and cite information; indexing and abstracting; using special resources (e.g. patents) and "grey literature" (e.g. technical reports and conference proceedings); conducting Web searches; and constructing literature reviews.
Technical Requirements
Special software is required to use some of the files in this course: .swf.