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Use a scanner and your print credits as a “color copier.”

While there is not a color photocopier in the library, you can get a color copy by using one of the several scanners we have. Use the KIC or Epson flatbed scanners to capture the image, and make any adjustments to the image you want, including size, before saving it. Then sent it to one […]

Learn to Document and Use Sources in your Writing

Our Citation Guide helps you with APA style MLA style Chicago/Turabian style & links to the American Anthropological Association style guide Tutorials Incorporating Sources into Your Research Paper: Learn to structure, analyze and use sources to support an argument in your research paper in this tutorial. 6 minutes. Why You Need to Cite Sources: Learn […]

Have an alternative browser (or two) available on your computer

You probably have a standard browser that you use day in and day out to view the Internet. It’s a good idea, however, to have other browsers available on your computer to help out when technical problems or display issues that arise. Sometimes a website’s designed functionality or display just doesn’t play well with the […]

Ask for a librarian when you need research help

The library faculty are here to help you learn and discover effective ways to identify, access, and use information. Examples of common questions: finding a couple articles that are “peer-reviewed” (and understanding what that means) completing a citation for an article when you only have a title finding images of landscapes by Chinese painters citing […]

Turn your Facebook network into a study group

Hoot.me is an app that allows for study groups and other project collaboration within Facebook. Your collaboration can be private and shared only with specific friends, or it can be open to others at WOU or worldwide also working on your subject. (You don’t have to be Facebook friends to collaborate on Hoot.) Hoot.me’s chat […]

Use Ctrl + F to quickly find text

Pressing Ctrl and f keys together is an invaluable time saver to find where a certain word or phrase appears in a document. This keyboard shortcut is pretty universal–use it on the web and with pdf viewers as well as in programs such as Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. Using a Mac? Press Command + f […]

EasyBib

EasyBib is an online tool that helps you organize and use your research sources, including the generation of an APA, MLA, or Chicago/Turabian formatted citation list. The library’s link to EasyBib gets you premium access. Create a new project for each of your research projects, and store your bibliography for the life of the project […]

Hamersly Library Presents

Watch it now – The Library: Search for the Lost Gold Hamersly Library presents The Library: Search for the Lost Gold. An Ed Wood style production. With absolutely no educational value.

Wondering what is meant by a primary source or a secondary source?

If a professor has ever referred to primary sources or required you to use secondary sources in your paper, perhaps you weren’t sure what that meant. This 6-min. tutorial will help you distinguish between them and use them appropriately in your research. No Flash plugin installed.

EBSCO improves ability to browse a journal issue

Have you ever wanted to peruse an entire issue of an electronic journal in a way similar to how you can a physical copy? It can be clunky. Now, when journals are in PDF format in one of our many EBSCO databases, the issue’s full contents will list on the left side of the screen […]

Western Oregon University’s Land Acknowledgement
Western Oregon University in Monmouth, OR is located within the traditional homelands of the Luckiamute Band of Kalapuya. Following the Willamette Valley Treaty of 1855 (Kalapuya etc. Treaty), Kalapuya people were forcibly removed to reservations in Western Oregon. Today, living descendants of these people are a part of the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde Community of Oregon and the Confederated Tribes of the Siletz Indians.

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