Help With Research Wiki

Brief a law case (student brief) 

Evaluate information on the web:

• Don't judge a web site by its colors!      
• Evaluating information on the web
• Evaluating web content (Univ of Albany)
• Tutorial - Evaluating internet sites 101  (Univ of Albany)
• Internet Detective 
• The CRAAP test    

 Find articles:

• Search for articles in databases  
• Boolean searching review 
• Troubleshoot   
• Is it a scholarly or popular article? What makes a journal scholarly? -  tutorial from Rutgers University. 

Find books and read a call number (John Jay version, or U. of Georgia version)

FInd information 

Find statistics

Use APA style:

• Cite sources  
• Cite electronic sources
• Format a paper in APA style   
• Create an annotated bibliography

Use databases:

• Academic Search Premier
• new LexisNexis
• PsycINFO   
• specialized encyclopedias
• search using Boolean operators
• and more ... 

Use Refworks

Write an outline 

Write a literature review

Write & read papers

 Need more help?

Computer Information Systems

Criminal Justice

Domestic violence:

• Multicultural perspectives on DV
• Police response to spouse abuse

Economic Crisis 2008

Elections 2008

Forensic psychology

Forensic science

Forensic science careers

Gender studies

Health & fitness - for class and for life    

Information literacy overview & tutorials

International criminal justice  

Law Enforcement and the Mentally Ill

Legal research

Middle East and Islam  

Native Americans 

Terrorism pathfinder

New York City 

Obama Administration

Peer review

Primary Sources

Prisoner reentry  

Psychological tests

Public administration  

Scientific papers

Security management     

Subject list of library databases    

Library Drop-in Sessions

Library tours

Tutorials  (information literacy, plagiarism, internet searching, evaluating information) 

What is (informational) research?  (video)

What is the information cycle? (video)