CHEM 232: Organic Chemistry II: Refreshers

Learn the differences between the three most common types of articles you'll find while searching in library databases. This short video was created by librarians at East Carolina University's Joyner Library.

Discusses how to read a scientific article, how to find the main points of the article, and how to take effective notes. From the University of Minnesota Libraries.

This video from the North Carolina State University Libraries discusses how and why to evaluate sources for credibility. It includes a brief discussion of the peer-review process and suggests questions to ask before deciding whether to use a source in an academic paper. Recommended for students whose professors require that they cite credible, academic, scholarly, peer-reviewed, or refereed sources in their papers.

This short video from the University of Rhode Island libraries discusses why Google isn't always your best option for conducting scholarly research in a college-level course.