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Library Services for Graduate Students: Resources for you

Graduate Student Library Services

The Library works with Graduate Students to provide you with the best resources for your programs, courses, and research. Some of our services include:

A checklist of things to do in grad school related to the Library

To make your graduate program easier, we recommend doing these as soon as possible:

As you focus in on your topic and start your research:

  • work with your librarian to focus your library searches for your lit review
  • discover and research instruments (scales, questionnaires, etc.) and methodologies

Retractions

How do I tell if an article has been retracted?

I used a lot of articles in my thesis and I don't want to cite something that was retracted. How do I tell?

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Here's a video showing how to tell if an article has been retracted, using the features of the Retraction Watch database. Click the link to see the video in a larger version, to view the transcript, and to get links to the tools and resources mentioned.

 

Doing Reviews

I need to do a scoping review (or some other form of literature review.) How can I make this easier?

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The citation manager Zotero can make collecting, organizing, and documenting a structured literature review easier. Here's a video showing part of the process of collecting and organizing citations for a review. Click the link for a larger version of the video and to view the transcript. Contact librarian Rebecca Hedreen for more info.

 

Finding more articles from one

I've got one article, how do I find more like it?

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Here's a video demonstrating 3 strategies, and several tools and search engines, that will help with that. (Click the link to view it in a larger size and to view the transcript.)

 

How to do page numbers in Word

How do I do the page numbers for my thesis?

My thesis is supposed to start numbering at the beginning of my text, and not number or number in Roman numerals for the stuff at the beginning, like my title page, dedication, and table of contents. How do I do that?

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Here is a video showing how to do page numbers in sections in Microsoft Word. (Click the link to view it in a larger size and to view the transcript.)