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Your instructor asked you to use academic, scholarly or peer reviewed articles but you don't know where to start. We help students with that all the time, and now we have a brand new guide just for you! Go to the Guide . Get our tips for your best bets for finding scholarly & peer reviewed articles, plus step by step tips to save you time and get the sources you need. Find out: What is a peer reviewed article? How to Find articles with literature reviews, methodology and results.  Steps to find peer reviewed articles in EBSCO & ProQuest Research Library

A new LibGuide to support the new COM course, The Undead in Film & Literature . Get the best books, eBooks, articles, Internet resources and media on Frankenstein, vampires and zombies. Go to the Guide .

Paper Troubles? Paper Calculator to the rescue! Type in start and end dates and let the calculator be your step by step guide to getting your paper done! Go to the Guide: http://libguides.com.edu/Paper

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The Research Tutorial is your key to research success! This guide introduces COM students to college level research. Go to the Guide! Features: How to find the sources your instructors want you to use and evaluate them as appropriate for college level research as well as you research assignment. Learn about citation and where to get citation help. How to save time and find articles in COM Library’s online databases. How to get the good stuff on the Internet. Students and faculty can leave a comment on any box on any page, review the entire guide or suggest more resources on the topic. Please don’t hesitate to provide feedback!

The Problem From: Overdue at the Library: Good Guides on How to Use It "According to Mr. Asher, the researchers found that small gaps in knowledge—e.g., how to tell from a catalog number where to look for an item in the library—created larger difficulties. He showed slides of a student trying to find a particular video in the stacks; it took her six steps (including asking library workers who didn't know the answer), 10 minutes, and three trips up and down the stairs to find the right spot. "Very few students will persist that long," Mr. Asher said. "A minor gap in the student's information-literacy knowledge led to a major problem in finding the material," he added. "We saw this over and over again." The Solution COM Library's LibGuides and Ask a Librarian .

You’ll be happy to learn that in response to customer feedback, and through collaboration with McMaster University, the EBSCOhost versions of CINAHL, CINAHL Plus, CINAHL with Full Text and CINAHL Plus with Full Text now offer the ability to employ Clinical Queries as part of any search. Clinical Queries, designed for clinician use, allow users to limit searches with specific search strategies, to aid in retrieving scientifically sound and clinically relevant study reports indexed in CINAHL databases. Searches can be refined using specific search strategies designed to produce results in five research areas: Therapy - High Sensitivity Prognosis Review Qualitative Causation (Etiology) As research may require different emphasis, three strategies are provided for each area: High Sensitivity is the broadest search, to include ALL relevant material. It may also include less relevant materials. High Specificity is the most targeted search to include only the most relevant result set, may miss...

Is the Google Generation – children born after 1993 – different from the rest of us? Do they reach for a computer mouse while still in the crib, showing an instinctive ability to navigate the Internet and find quick answers? And where does college level research fit into all this? read more

We know our students have time management issues (don’t we all!). With The Paper Calculator, you can just type in start and end dates and get step by step how to for writing their college papers. Give it a try and see what happens! Here is a direct link: http://library.com.edu/How_To/freecalc/index.php Access The Paper Calculator from COM Library’s home page . It's currently featured at the top of the page, but has a permanent link under Find Help.