Online Tutorials in Psyc, Soc, Ling, and CSD

• Aging
• CSD
• Linguistics
• Psychology
• Sociology
• Statistics & Research Methodology
• Online Tutorials

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Off-Campus Access via Virtual Private Network

Questions or Suggestions?
Merrie Davidson
merdavi@ufl.edu
352-273-2649

• PsycInfo(EBSCO)
• Visual Searches in EBSCO
• APA lists suggestions for searches in related related areas and subfields of psychology in PsycINFO
• Web of Science (Best viewed in Internet Explorer)
• Citation Searching in Web of Science
• CSA tutorial (use for Sociological Abstracts, LLBA, Social Services Abstracts )
• NPR in LexisNexis: How to search particular news sources

Using RefWorks (Online Bibliographic Citation Software)

• RefWorks Tutorial (You must be at UF or on the Proxy/VPN to use this)
• Setting up Google for RefWorks

• Finding e-Journals
• Finding print journals

Tutorials on Library Research

• Steps to a Literature Review
• Oregon State University Libraries Research Tutorial (Fantastic! Not only the How, but also the Why of Research)
• Reeves Library Research Tutorial Moravian College (Especially good is the last section on Scholarly Communication)
• Search Strategy Techniques (UF)

Read Merrie's Wiki!

Setting up Alerts in Databases

For help or chat while I'm at my computer at the library or home
IM: merdavidson
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You can choose any of hundreds of bibliographic styles for your references. You can organize your own papers. You can organize everything you read or view: books, journal articles, videos, and movies. Best of all, the UF Libraries provide it for you. You need to set up an account, but it's FREE to you! Take advantage!