You can use this guide as a "library cheat sheet." It will remind you how to do some of the things that we went over in the workshop. This guide consists of the following sections:
Finding Information – Where to go to find articles, reference books and background information.
Evaluating Information – Some basic guidelines on deciding whether something is worth trusting and citing.
Reading Research Articles – reading journal articles is a skill, this has a few suggestions to maximize your efficiency.
Citing Sources & Copyright – How to evaluate copyright questions and some scenarios common to polymer students.
You could download it from My Akron too. Software downloads hyperlink is on the Technology Support tab. Follow the directions to download ChemDraw.
If you are looking for an article, try these databases first:
A rich collection of citation indexes representing the citation connections between scholarly research articles found in the most globally significant journals, books, and proceedings in the sciences, social sciences and art & humanities.
Do you know where the Article is (what journal, conference, volume, pages, etc)? Use the UA Libraries Catalog. opens new window
Need a Specific Article that Can't be Downloaded and is not in our Library? Try
Over 800 essential reference books and databases from the world's leading scientific publishers and professional societies in 18 industrially important subject areas.
EBooks, references works, and journals in the fields of science, medicine, engineering and more.
A multidisciplinary collection of online resources covering life, health and physical sciences, social science, and the humanities.
I am happy to help in any way that I can. Just contact me thru email or by phone M-F from 8:00AM to 4:00PM. You can request an appointment too. I can easily meet using Teams, but I might be able to meet differently. Just let me know your preference.
Also, we have several guides that contain tutorials that we created or vendor tutorials:
