Tutorials & Videos

Videos require the Flash player (most computers come with it installed) and run from one to five minutes.

MERLIN Catalog and Book Locations

• Find books about an author (MU Libraries, 2:09)
• Locate books by call number in Ellis Library (MU Libraries, 1:31)
• Renew your books online (MU Libraries, 1:03)
• Save MERLIN searches to re-run later (MU Libraries, 1:33)
• Request books from the Depository (books in storage) (MU Libraries, 1:30)

• Locate an online or print copy of an article for which you have a citation (MU Libraries, 4:07)
• Locate an online or print copy of an article you find in a library database (MU Libraries, 2:49)
• Set up Google Scholar to link to copies of articles (online or print) provided by MU (MU Libraries, 1:22)
• Articles: Scholarly vs Popular Periodicals  (Vanderbilt University, 3:12)

• CINAHL - Basic Keyword Search (MU Health Sciences Library, about 2 minutes)
• Scopus

Improve Your Search Technique

• Boolean Operators (University of Auckland, 4:52)

Tools and Apps for Bibliographic Research

• Organizing and Formatting Citations using EndNote: Video Tutorials (Yale Medical Library)
• Organizing and Formatting Citations using Zotero: Screencast Tutorials (Zotero.org) 
• Coming Soon: MU's LibX Toolbar (MU Libraries)

Cite Sources, Avoid Plagiarism

• You Quote it, You Note it!  (Acadia University)
• Plagiarism & Academic Integrity (Rutgers University)
• Citing Sources

Understand and Evaluate Information

• The Information Cycle (Penn. State University), a short video on how information is created.
• Evaluating Web Pages