Research Bytes

Bite-sized help for research projects

1. Finding Background Information

Finding Background Information
An important step in any research project.

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2. Databases by Subject

Databases by Subject
Why you would use subject specific databases and how to find them.

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3. Find@UNM Button

Find@UNM Button
Don't see the full text? Here's how to find it.

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4. Citation Generators

Citation Generators
Our recommendations for doing citations.

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5. Wikipedia, Google, & The Library

6. Permalinks

Permalinks
Articles in tabs expire! Here's how to avoid losing your research.

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7. Narrowing Searches

Narrowing Searches
What to do when you get 2,679,362 results.

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8. Refining Topics

Refining Topics
How do you know you can write a paper on your topic?

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9. Reading Scholarly Articles

10. Annotated Bibliographies

11. Getting Research Help

12. Ebooks

Ebooks
eBooks in an academic library can have a lot of hoops to jump through. Here's our advice.

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13. Google Scholar

Google Scholar
Like using Google? Maybe you'll like the research version of it.

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About

The Instruction Team at the Libraries has put together this series of short research guides.  Each one is designed to give guidance on one aspect of doing research or using the library. 

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Subjects: Research Tools
Tags: ENGL 1120