Research Guides and Tutorials in the Humanities, Social Sciences, Education, and Business Disciplines - How to Start Doing Research
This page contains electronic handouts, tutorials, and web pages to help you complete your research
- CORE (Comprehensive Online Research Education) - An interactive tutorial which describes the process of developing an effective strategy for identifying, locating, and evaluating different types of information sources. CORE provides an overall framework of the research process, focusing on fundamental principles and concepts. Learn how to develop a research topic, search the Libraries Catalog, select the best index database for journal articles, use the web effectively, and evaluate which sources are best for your research project.
- Tutorials for Biology Students Searching the Scientific Literature - This series of tutorials will help students become better finders and users of information in general, and scientific information in particular. While these tutorials use biology examples, they are useful for students in other science classes.
- How to Read a Scientific Paper - Explains the elements of a scientific paper and how it can be useful to your research.
- Software Remote at ItaP (access to software remotely)
- Research Project Advisory Service - This service, available to all Purdue undergraduate students, offers professional, individualized assistance in locating and evaluating information sources for any kind of research project.