Library Instruction Online

UMass Dartmouth Library YouTube Channel

The UMass Dartmouth Library maintains a Youtube channel offering many short videos to help you with common questions. Playlists include:

• Locating or Requesting Full-text Articles
• Ebsco Databases

Library Instruction Tutorials

• Popular Magazines and Scholarly Journals
  • Self Assessment - Popular Magazines and Scholarly Journals
• Primary and Secondary Sources: Recognizing the Difference
  • Self Assessment - Primary and Secondary Sources: Recognizing the Difference
• Reading Citations in an Online Database
  • Self Assessment - Reading Citations in an Online Database
• Truncations
  • Self Assessment - Truncations
• Using Boolean Terms: AND, OR, NOT
  • Self Assessment - Using Boolean Terms: AND, OR, NOT
• Evaluating Internet Sources
• Citing Sources Why and When
  • Self Assessment - Citing Sources Why and When

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Some of the guides above are in PDF format (Portable Document Format) and require the installation of Adobe Acrobat Reader. The Reader is free software that will allow you to view and print PDF formatted documents. PDF is a commonly used format for delivering documents with fonts, formatting, colors and images intact regardless of platform (MAC, PC, etc.). Download the Reader by going to the Adobe Web site.