Introduction to Library Research

by justine munds

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Clackamas Community College
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Humanities
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Teens profiles and older, judged from its title and subjects

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  1. Front Matter
  2. TitlePage
  3. InfoPage
  4. Table of Contents
  5. Licensing
  6. 1: Introduction to LIB101
  7. 1.1: Welcome to LIB101!
  8. 1.2: The Syllabus
  9. 1.3: How to be an Online Student
  10. 1.4: Community Guidelines
  11. 1.5: CCC Library
  12. 1.6: Checking grades and reading feedback
  13. 1.7: Past students have advice for you!
  14. 1.8: Why is Information Literacy important?
  15. 1.9: Help is available!
  16. 2: Topics and Keywords
  17. 2.1: The Research Process
  18. 2.2: How to Develop a Good Research Topic
  19. 2.3: Keywords
  20. 2.3.1: Choosing keywords
  21. 2.3.2: Translating a topic into keywords
  22. 3: Basic Searching - Catalog
  23. 3.1: Chapter 3 Vocabulary
  24. 3.2: Adding to your Keywords
  25. 3.3: The CCC Library Catalog
  26. 3.4: Searching in the Library Catalog
  27. 3.4.1: Search Results and Keywords
  28. 3.5: Saving a Library Resource
  29. 3.6: Troubleshooting your search
  30. 3.7: How to take a screenshot
  31. 4: Basic Evaluation and Intro to Citations
  32. 4.1: Introduction to Citing Your Sources
  33. 4.2: Since we are talking about plagiarism...
  34. 4.3: Citations IRL (in real life)
  35. 4.4: MLA and APA
  36. 4.5: Where to get citation help
  37. 4.6: Evaluating your sources
  38. 4.7: Citations and credibility
  39. 5: Intermediate Searching - Databases
  40. 5.1: Chapter 5 Vocabulary
  41. 5.2: Popular and scholarly sources
  42. 5.3: Databases 101
  43. 5.4: Popular sources are good for background information
  44. 5.5: Searching for popular sources
  45. 5.5.1: Permalinks in Gale databases
  46. 5.6: Searching for scholarly sources
  47. 5.6.1: Refining your search results
  48. 5.6.2: Troubleshooting your search
  49. 5.6.3: Permalinks in Academic Search Complete
  50. 5.6.4: Other research pro tips
  51. 5.7: Summit and Interlibrary Loan
  52. 6: Intermediate Evaluation and Premade Citations
  53. 6.1: Choose your citation adventure...
  54. 6.2: Pre-made MLA citations
  55. 6.2.1: Correcting pre-made MLA citations
  56. 6.3: Pre-made APA citations
  57. 6.3.1: Correcting pre-made APA citations
  58. 6.4: Creating hanging indents
  59. 6.5: Evaluation- Digging Deeper
  60. 6.5.1: Peer-reviewed and scholarly articles
  61. 6.5.2: Scholarly publishing - an imperfect system
  62. 7: Advanced Searching - Google
  63. 7.1: Searching with Google
  64. 7.2: Keeping an open mind
  65. 7.3: Google Scholar
  66. 7.4: Iterative Searching
  67. 7.5: Knowing When You're "Done"
  68. 8: Advanced Evaluation
  69. 8.1: Misinformation, Disinformation, and Fake News- How to Spot Them
  70. 8.2: How to Fact Check
  71. 8.3: Expertise and authorship
  72. 8.4: Types of (free) web resources
  73. 8.5: Last thoughts on evaluation
  74. 9: Reflection
  75. Back Matter
  76. Index
  77. Glossary
  78. Detailed Licensing
  79. Detailed Licensing