Welcome! This guide will help you learn how to do college-level research. This includes important skills like evaluating the credibility of your sources, how to find sources with the library's databases, how to cite your sources, and more.
If you need one-on-one assistance, don't hesitate to send me an email or use the chat feature on the library website. I and the rest of the Sterne Library librarians are here to help you succeed in your research journey. Find my contact information on the right side of this guide. In the meantime, happy learning!
While some resources may be well known, such as popular magazines like the New Yorker or Rolling Stone, they may not necessarily be appropriate for a scholarly paper. Use the infographic below if you need help differentiating between Academic and Popular articles. In some instances, magazine articles or opinion pieces in a newspaper like the New York Times may be relevant to your subject, but you should almost always put academic sources at the forefront of your research.
As you use this guide to get started in your research, it is important to evaluate the credibility of the sources you find. As you already know, just because something is on the Internet, it doesn't make it true! Consider the following when determining whether or not a resource is credible:
The design of this page was partly adapted from Research: By Course, Subject, or Topic, by University of Arizona Libraries, © 2020 The Arizona Board of Regents on behalf of The University of Arizona, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
