# Library 160: Introduction to College-Level Research

- By: Iowa State University Library Instruction Services
- Publisher: Iowa State University
- Source: [Open Textbook Library](https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/textbooks/library-160-introduction-to-college-level-research)
- Licence: Attribution-ShareAlike
- eBook: https://iastate.pressbooks.pub/lib160/
- PDF: https://iastate.pressbooks.pub/lib160/

You will learn how scholarly information is produced, organized, and accessed; how to construct and use effective search strategies in a variety of web tools and scholarly databases; how to choose finding tools appropriate to the type of information you need; critical thinking skills in the evaluation of resources; and best practices in the ethical use of information.