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ABI / INFORM Global Database
This video will go over searching in ProQuest’s ABI/INFORM Global database.
Academic Info - Subject Guides
This site provides links to subject guides in a large number of subject areas, including ancient Egypt, criminal justice, and biology.
Anti-Racism Resources
This guide has been prepared by AU Library during the Black Lives Matter Protests. We aim to add resources as we find them that will be beneficial to anyone looking to educate themselves or learn more about the movement. Please contact the library if you have any suggestions or requests for this page.
AU Journal Title List Tutorial
This demonstrates a fast way to find full text journal articles through AU Library when all you have is a citation, (e.g. author, article title, journal title, year, volume, etc.).
AU Library Catalogue (AUCAT) Tutorial
The AUCAT tutorial teaches you how to navigate and search the library catalogue, and can be valuable in helping you find electronic and print items in the library collection.
AU Library Guide to the Research Process
This tutorial walks you through the steps involved in the research process.
AU Library Orientation Video Series
This series of closed-captioned tutorials provides a comprehensive introduction to AU Library's resources and services, and to the academic research process.
AU Library Pandemic Support Resources
This guide provides activities to keep children at home occupied, resources to keep your mind occupied, mental health resources, reliable news sources and, resources for shifting to online and distance education.
AU Library Tour
This is an animated orientation tour of the AU Library Website.
AU Library's Glossary of Library Terms and Phrases
This glossary will help you with the terminology that librarians use.
Books & Media
This research guide will help you navigate the Books & Media tab on the AU Library Homepage. You will learn to search the library catalogue, narrow your search, completed an advanced search, and access library materials.
Canadian Parliamentary Publications: A Research Guide
This guide, produced by the University of Toronto Libraries, is designed to assist in locating parliamentary publications that are widely available to the public, and provides links to relevant websites.
Canadian Periodicals Index Quarterly (CPI.Q) Tutorial: Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3
This tutorial demonstrates how to carry out searches in the Canadian Periodicals Index Quarterly database, including basic, advanced, subject guide, and publication searching.
Discover Research Guide
This guide teaches you about AU Library's default search tool. Walks you through what Discover is, beginning your search, narrowing, accessing resources, citing and organizing sources, searching for a specific item and includes a video tutorial.
E-book FAQs
Faculty of Graduate Studies Digital Literacy Tutorial Repository
This repository contains a set of video- and text-based tutorials on aspects of digital and information literacy that are highly relevant to students at the graduate level.
Finding And Using Statistics
"This publication provides quick tips on locating information on the Statistics Canada website. . . this electronic guide has been created especially for users needing a step-by-step review on how to find, read and use data."
Generating Searchable Keywords, and Using Subject Headings and Subject Terms
This series of tutorials discusses searching library catalogues and journal article databases using keywords, subject headings, and subject terms.
Google Scholar Research Guide
Google Scholar is a powerful supplement to Library resources that can help you with your research. This research guide will show you how to make the most of your Google Scholar searches. Topics will include finding Google Scholar through AU Library and setting AU Library links, advanced searching, article citation rankings, and more.
Health Studies Research Guide
Indigenous Studies Research Guide
This guide is intended to help you learn about Indigenous resources and information sources.
Interlibrary Loans
This video goes over when to place an interlibrary loan request, how to go about requesting an interlibrary loan, and what to expect.
Internet Searching Research Guide
This guide teaches strategies for searching the internet and evaluating web information, and provides a list of tools that can be used.
Library Terminology Tutorial: Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3
This tutorial explains the meaning of Library terms such as journal, journal article, database, and peer-reviewed resources.Latin American Studies Guide
Legal Studies Research Guide
Library Terminology (Video): Part 1 | Part 2
Limiting AUCAT Search Results To E-Books
This short animated tutorial shows you how to limit results to e-books.
Locating Databases by Subject
This brief tutorial shows you how to locate AU Library's databases by subject area.
Logging in To Your AU Library Account
This brief guide will show you how to log in to your Athabasca University Library patron account.
MA - IS Research Guide
Narrowing Searches by Adding Terms
This tutorial applies Boolean Search principles and shows you how to narrow search results by adding terms to your search strategies.
Nursing and Health Studies Research Guide
Nurse Practitioner Resources
Open Access Resources
This guide provides information about the open access movement, and selected open access resources.
Peer-Review Research Guide
In this guide we explain what peer-review is, how to find peer-reviewed articles, how to check if an article is peer-reviewed and how books fit in.
Political Science Research & Writing Guide
Predatory Journals and Predatory Conferences
This is a guide to help identify excellent journals and conferences through which to publish and present your research. It provides questions to consider when evaluating a conference or journal; and resources for further reading.
ProQuest Access
This video outlines two ways to access ProQuest databases.
ProQuest Thesaurus
A walk through using the ProQuest Thesaurus to improve advanced searching.
Psychology Research Guide
Quebec Tutorial In Research Ethics
Funded by the Quebec government, this tutorial was developed as an ethics training tool for research ethics board (REB) members and support staff who work in the institutions of the Québec health and social services network.
Quick Reference Guide for PsycINFO ON EBSCO
This downloadable helpsheet is designed as a quick reference for using PsycINFO on the EBSCOHost platform.Searching JSTOR
This tutorial demonstrates how to search JSTOR using the basic search screen.
Searching PsycINFO On EBSCOHost
This tutorial teaches you the basics of conducting a search in PsycINFO on the EBSCOHost platform.
Sociology Research Guide
Tips for Searching (Boolean Search Guide)
This guide provides you with valuable tips about constructing search strategies.
Tools To Help Organizations Create, Share And Use Research
This site, created by the Canadian Health Services Research Foundation is designed to assist organizations to create, share and use research in a way that is meaningful and appropriate.
Wikipedia Tutorials
Series of tutorials discusses when and how to use Wikipedia as a tool to help you carry out scholarly research using Library resources, and ways to evaluate Wikipedia articles for accuracy and reliability.
Wikipedia Research Guide
This research guide covers what Wikipedia is, how to use it for academic research, ways to assess article quality, a pdf checklist, slides from our Wikipedia Webinar, and video tutorials.
AU Library YouTube Channel
AU Library's YouTube Channel hosts recordings of webinars and instructional videos on a variety of library-related topics.
Citing & Referencing ?
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AU Library's Guide to Citation Style
This guide from AU Library provides information on APA, Chicago/Turabian, MLA, and many other citation styles.Citation Management Tools: Mendeley and Zotero
This guide provides you with information about how to use the popular citation management tools Mendeley and Zotero.
Citing Music Sources (Turabian 7th edition) - UWO
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Advice On Academic Writing
Access a collection of links and information from the University of Toronto for general help with writing as well as with specific types of writing such as annotated bibliographies, book reviews, literature reviews, etc.
Common Writing Assignments
The Online Writing Lab (OWL) at Purdue University has created several guides to the most common academic writing assignments. They include argument, research, or exploratory papers; annotated bibliographies, book reports, and book reviews; academic proposals and essays for exams.
Glossary Of Grammatical Terms
This glossary, created by AU's Write Site, provides definitions for English grammatical terms.
Psychology Centre Writing Resources
Access a collection of links to writing resources, maintained by Professor Lyle Grant from the AU Centre for Psychology. Some resources are specific to psychology, but most are useful for any discipline.
Transitional Devices - AU Write Site
This tutorial, created by AU's Write Site, provides assistance to writers in using transitional devices in writing.
USF Libraries--Writing Guides/Annotated Bibliographies
Use this collection of links from University of South Florida Libraries for help with various types of academic writing and preparing annotated bibliographies.
Write On: Learn To Love Your Term Paper
Written by Julia Nielsen from AU Counselling Services, this online tutorial provides guidance to students writing term papers.
The Write Site
This site is designed to assist students with academic writing assignments. Students can use this service to receive feedback about the writing component - organization, mechanics, grammar, and style - of an assignment before they submit it to a tutor for marking.
Writing A Literature Review
This guide provides detailed information about the steps involved in writing a literature review.
Troubleshooting/Technical Tutorials ?
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AU Library Tech Support Guide
This is a collection of help guides to provide technical support for various aspects of the AU Library website and resources.
Creating Persistent Links To Electronic Resources
This tutorial shows users how to find or create persistent links to journal articles and e-books.
Logging Into Library Resources Tutorial
This tutorial shows you how to log into Library resources.
Troubleshooting Security Certificate Errors
This short tutorial demonstrates how to navigate security certificate errors sometimes received when using certain databases.
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Updated January 21, 2021, 2:57 pm by Library & Scholarly Resources