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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 […]
Students have 225 pre-paid print credits attached to their network accounts each term that they are enrolled at WOU. A single page (one side) of a black & white printout costs 1 credit. A single color printout costs 5 credits. You can check your print credit balance. If you need to purchase additional credits, do […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Columbia International Affairs Online (CIAO) is a source for international affairs and public policy. It includes full-text books and journals articles; policy briefs and papers from university research and public policy institutes and from non-governmental organizations (NGOs); multimedia case studies on focused topics; and video of heads of state and other world leaders speaking from […]
Are you taking a HPE class? Good places to look for research articles are in SPORTDiscus, Physical Education Index, and Education Full Text (including ERIC). Or here is a complete list of our Health Education databases, with descriptions of their specialty areas.
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.
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 […]
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