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Tutorials

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Tutorials by Fielding's Librarians

Guide to Using the Library*

A short yet informative guide that lists the Library's "greatest hits," and explains how and when to use them.

Introduction to Fielding Library Services for New Students

If you are a new student, please see this PDF document.

Library Self-Evaluation Questionnaire

Designed to help you self-evaluate your existing knowledge of library and information research.

Controlled Vocabularies*

Explains how important they are for effectively using bibliographic databases.

Precision vs. Recall, or, the big tradeoff in online searching*

Discusses two basic concepts affecting online searching for information.

The Stages of Scholarly Output*

Explains how scholarly research becomes public knowledge.

About Copyright and Fair Use

Contains important information about fundamental elements of copyright law, Fair Use, and basic copyright-related rules.

Techniques for Online Scholarly Research*

A comprehensive online interactive tutorial designed to allow all Fielding researchers to learn these important skills independent of time and location. It is self-paced, so you can spend as much time as needed on its various sections. Although emphasis will be placed on using the databases that Fielding provides for you, the techniques and skills you learn can be applied to the overall online environment of databases and Internet search engines.

Fielding Library Tour by Dummies (Portal to Wild Parties)*

"Most advice you might get about the eLibrary is from experts at the Fielding Library Service. This advice is from a non-expert (me). My message is — from one library dummy to another — this is a very cool adventure." By Fielding OM faculty member Barclay Hudson!

May the Power be With You, or, What Fisher did not tell us about the Null Hypothesis *

Interpreting or designing statistical analyes, especially of clinical studies? This is for you! By Fielding faculty member Henry V. Soper, PhD

APA Exposed

An APA style online tutorial from the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE). It is based on a workshop entitled, "APA EXPOSED : Everything You Always Wanted to Know About APA Format But Were Afraid to Ask!" by Wendy Mages, an HGSE doctoral student. The online APA tutorial has been designed to supplement the in-person workshop, to be a stand-alone resource, to provide point-of-need assistance, and to facilitate student access to citation "how-to" information for APA format.

Internet Detective

A "free online tutorial that will help you develop Internet research skills for your university and college work. The tutorial looks at the critical thinking required when using the Internet for research and offers practical advice on evaluating the quality of web sites." Created by the Intute Virtual Training Suite and the LearnHigher Project as well as others.

Interpreting Citations Tutorial

A web-based interactive tutorial created for interpreting journal citations in print and online indexes. Special attention is given to the variety of abbreviations that might appear in journal citations. By Chris Niemeyer, University of Missouri-St. Louis.

Mind your phraseology! - Using controlled vocabularies to improve findability

The concept of, reasons for, and tips for using controlled vocabularies are explained well here. Focused more on using Internet search engines such as Google and Yahoo! than online library databases, this expands on the discussion in our Controlled Vocabularies posting above. Written by Christina Wodtke, in Digital Web Magazine.

TILT - Texas Information Literacy Tutorial

Created by the University of Texas System Digital Library, but generic in content. Recommended to anyone not yet comfortable with the academic research process!

Information Competence

Somewhat broader in scope than TILT; pick from a list of several topics. By Cal Poly State University, San Luis Obispo, CA.

net.TUTOR

Fairly basic guides to Research Techniques, Search Skills, and Internet Tools. By Ohio State University Libraries.

Finding Information on the Internet

By Library, University of California, Berkeley.

Internet Tutorials (Basic Internet, Internet Research Guides, Search Engines & Subject

Directories, and more)

By Laura Cohen, University at Albany Libraries.

Virtual Training Suite

By Resource Discovery Network. Guides to Internet sites (somewhat U.K.-centric) and usage for dozens of academic disciplines.

More Tutorials

More tutorials, listed in our Internet Resources Catalog, that explain fundamentals of email systems, spam, viruses, web browsers, and other computer/Internet-related things.