Video tutorials

Getting started

• Developing a research question
• Developing a research question: for graduate students
• Improving your thesis statement
• Introduction to the Library
• Introduction to the Library for online students
• Picking a topic
• Picking a topic and developing a research question in Geography and Environmental Studies
• Picking a topic in Psychology
• University vs. high school research

Finding articles & journals

• Connecting to Library resources in Google Scholar
• Finding an article when you only know the title
• Finding articles on a topic
• Finding free online news articles: getting behind paywalls

Finding books & book reviews

• Finding book reviews
• Finding books: using the Primo library catalogue
• Finding eBooks
• How to find scholarly books
• Interlibrary loan borrowing: using RACER
• Requesting books from other libraries in Primo

Finding business information

• Build a company list
• Company financials: Mergent Online
• Finding analyst reports in Thomson One: the basics
• Finding Canadian company annual reports
• Finding country risk: Nexis Uni
• Finding SWOT analyses
• International industry research: Business Source Complete
• International industry research: Marketline

Finding other research materials

• Finding statistics using StatCan's Data Portal
• How to find primary sources in History

Getting great results

• Better searching using AND, OR, NOT
• Better searching using truncation
• Creating a search strategy
• Getting great results: narrowing your search
• Google Scholar tips
• Using search words effectively

Using sources

• Creating an annotated bibliography
• Creating arguments
• Identifying and analyzing arguments
• Planning a literature review
• Using sources as evidence

Evaluating sources

• How can I tell if my source is scholarly?
• Identifying peer-reviewed journals
• Using good sources: evaluating what you find
• What is a peer-reviewed journal?

Citing sources

• How to cite
• How to cite in ACS style
• How to cite in APA style
• How to cite in Chicago style
• How to cite in MLA style
• Understanding plagiarism
• When to cite

Demonstrating research impact

• ORCID iDs
• Show your research impact with a Google Scholar profile

Using citation tools

• Getting started with Zotero
• Using Mendeley's plug-in for Word
• Using Zotero's plug-in for Word
• Zotero or Mendeley: which one is best?