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Research Tips:
How can I learn more about a topic in the history of science?

Looking for something to jump-start your research for your web project? Work your way through the links below, and you'll be sure to find lots of ideas! Return to other links as you are writing, to make sure that you are using reliable sources and crediting them properly.

• Searching the Library's online catalog
  • Catalog Basic Searching (OU Library online tutorial)
  • Catalog Advanced Searching (OU Library online tutorial; including how to find full-text e-books through the library)
     
• Online primary sources
  • Primary and Secondary Sources (OU Library online tutorial)
     
• Must I use only online sources?
   
• Secondary Sources
  • General secondary sources (eg, the Dictionary of Scientific Biography and the Encyclopedia of Women in Science)
  • Topical secondary sources
  • Isis Bibliography (how to identify relevant secondary sources)
  • What does Google miss? Or, How do I use e-journals and databases on the Library website in order to get full-text articles online?
  • How do I evaluate secondary sources for my web project?
    • Evaluating Information Sources (OU Library online tutorial)
  • Finding images
  • How to identify, find, and acquire online secondary sources (OU Library online tutorials):
    • Using LORA
    • Searching Databases
    • Article Linker
    • Using Article1st
    • Inter-Library Loan
       
• Credit your sources!
  • Bibliography guidelines
  • Crediting images
  • How to avoid plagiarism
     
• Google
  • How can I get the most out of Google searches?
  • What is Google Scholar? How is it different from ordinary Google searches? Does it work with Library e-journals?
     
• How can I avoid Rational Reconstruction?
   
• Research tips (CAS online, pdf).

The Library has additional online video tutorials available here: http://libraries.ou.edu/help/tutorials/

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