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Research Help - Learn the Skills for Research

If you find it hard to do online tutorials alone, buddy up with your classmates!

Do you want to search, select, evaluate, and cite information from online or in a traditional library? Try these Information Literacy Tutorials:

  • Basic information literacy skills tutorial with quiz results that can be emailed to your instructor. Please skip Module 3 and ignore references to SCC and LOIS.

  • Basic information literacy skills tutorial with self-quiz that does not get mailed to your instructor.

  • Evaluating the quality of information tutorial with self-quiz that does not get mailed to your instructor.

  • "Be an Internet Detective" tutorial

  • Google Search tutorials

  • Information Literacy Tutorial in Spanish

  • Information Literacy Tutorial in Portuguese

  • Information Literacy Tutorial in Turkish

  • Information Literacy Instruction and Tutorials in many other languages Some of these results are in English, but if you do find a good tutorial or good instruction in your language, please send an email to library@cambridgecollege.edu so it can be posted here for other students from your country.



    Do you want to do a survey, focus group, interview, or other non-library research? Try these Basic Research Methods Tutorials:

  • Basic Research Methods, free online course
  • Research Methods web-based textbook for introductory course in social research methods
  • How to do Statistical Research Tutorial


    Especially for Management Students: Management Research Methods Tutorials:
  • Business Research Methods Tutorial
  • Business Plan Tutorial


    Especially for Counseling/Psychology Students: Try these Social Sciences Research Methods Tutorials:
  • Research Methods in the Social and Natural Sciences tutorial
  • Center for Psychology Resources: Research Methods Tutorial

    Especially for Education Students: Try these Education Research Methods Tutorials:
  • Education Research Methods Tutorial
  • Education Research Tutorial: A Policy Makers Primer on Education Research
  • Teacher Research/Action Research Resources
  • Action Research Websites

    If you are doing research on human subjects, please be aware of the government requirements, known as an IRB. Information can be found at U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Research Protections


    Cambridge College Info Lit Tips


    Note: Because CCOL is updated occasionally, some tips refer to earlier versions.

    Info Lit Tip: How to Read a Scholarly Article

    Info Lit Tip: Using Google Scholar

    Info Lit Tip: Brainstorming

    Info Lit Tip: Choosing your topic

    Info Lit Tip: How to read citations,and identify scholarly articles and substantive news articles

    Info Lit Tip: Ask yourself stupid questions

    Info Lit Tip: Identifying arguments

    Info Lit Tip: Interview yourself to focus your paper

    Info Lit Tip: What is a database? and a free book on writing research papers!

    Info Lit Tip: Why do we need to be information literate?

    Info Lit Tip: Don't trust the APA citation building tools

    Info Lit Tip: Plagiarism and bad sources: the bad Darwin poster!

    Info Lit Tip: Take a research methods tutorial for your subject area

    Info Lit Tip: Tutorials to help you avoid plagiarism

    Info Lit Tip: Improve your search skills tutorial

    Info Lit Tip: Why are research skills important?

    Info Lit Tip: Wikipedia is not an acceptable source. Here's why

    Info Lit Tip: Find relevant periodicals for your topic

    Info Lit Tip: Online glossaries for your subject area

    Info Lit Tip: Check your work for plagiarism

    Info Lit Tip: Be a data cop!

    Info Lit Tip: AND OR NOT searching

    Info Lit Tip: Meet the Facts!

    Info Lit Tip: Meet the Facts! Info Lit Tip Gets Critized for Bias

    Info Lit Tip: Eight Things You Can Do In CCOL

    Info Lit Tip: Don't use Google for Academic Research and EBSCOHost search tips

    Info Lit Tip: Stuck? Take a break to get your brain cells moving

    Info Lit Tip: Don't believe everything you see

    Info Lit Tip: Save notes, articles, and books in EBSCOHost and Ebrary

    Info Lit Tip: Test study skills resources in CCOL and Web

    Info Lit Tip: Evaluate Sources

    Info Lit Tip: Solve a problem by causing a problem

    Info Lit Tip: Use DropBox instead of a flash drive and other free online tools

    Info Lit Tip: Thinking critically about using statistics

    Info Lit Tip: Save on textbooks - Used, Rent, Digital, or Free. Includes a warning on renting

    Info Lit Tip: Why Johnnie and Janie can't search

    Info Lit Tip: Searching for statistics in tables and charts

    Info Lit Tip: Evaluate websites with Elvis!

    Info Lit Tip: Correcting your illuminating research paper

    Info Lit Tip: How do college students actually do online research?

    Info Lit Tip: Authoring Wikipedia articles as an information literacy learning experience

    Info Lit Tip: Part 2: Authoring Wikipedia articles as an information literacy learning experience

    Info Lit Tip: The Professor Who Fooled Wikipedia

    Info Lit Tip: Get Visual with Infographics, Part 1: what is an infographic?

    Info Lit Tip: Get Visual with Infographics, Part 2: Evaluating infographics

    Info Lit Tip: Why can't I just Google?

    Info Lit Tip: Fact-checking Political Arguments

    Info Lit Tip: Create a Personal Learning Network for your topic

    Info Lit Tip: English as Foreign Language Students and Library Services

    Info Lit Tip: Correct misinformation about online research

    Info Lit Tip: Employers expect research skills

    Info Lit Tip: Employers expect employees to be able to read annual reports and other reports

    Info Lit Tip: Employers expect employees to be able to use the telephone for research

    Info Lit Tip: Interpret Research Results with Team Members

    Info Lit Tip: Applying Patience and Persistence in Research


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