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This is a list of all the library's tutorials (instructions, videos, demonstrations, hands-on practice, guides and more) alphabetically organized and linked on this page. Some are created by your MCPHS librarians and some link out to external resources.
Librarian Tip: use Control + F to search the text on the page and jump directly to a tutorial or teachable.
About: Choose between three external guides to strategies for analyzing poetry.
Format: External html pages.
Recommended Use: To augment course assignments, assist students as they practice critically reading poems.
Licensing:
Reviewed On: June 27, 2018
About: Interactive image that explains each section of a scholarly article.
Format: Interactive image
Recommended Use: As an introduction or refresher on how to read a scholarly article. Consider connecting it to an early critical reading/analysis/evaluation assignment or activity.
Licensing: Creative Commons Attribution - Noncommercial - Share Alike 3.0 United States License.
Reviewed On: June 27, 2018
About: Visualizes and describes the uses of the AND, OR, NOT boolean operators.
Format: html chart with images.
Recommended Use: As a reference when students are learning to search.
Licensing: Created at MCPHS.
Reviewed On: July 31, 2018
About: A chart that breaks down each component part of a call number.
Format: html table
Recommended Use: Pair with an activity that asks students to find a physical book, or an activity that uses one item in the catalog as jumping of point for finding related materials (through similar call numbers, subjects, or browsing).
Licensing: Created at MCPHS.
Reviewed On: July 7, 2018
About: A chart that gives an overview of the MLA, APA, and CMOS styles and offers side-by-side examples of the same source cited in all three styles.
Format: PDF
Recommended Use: A quick reference.
Licensing: Copyrighted by The Writing Lab, The OWL at Purdue and Purdue University.
Reviewed On: June 29, 2018
About:An image diagram of how articles in a reference list feed into an article, and cited by articles feed out of it.
Format: jgp
Recommended Use: To accompany or explain the citation search process. Consider pairing with an activity to practice citation searching.
Licensing: Created at MCPHS.
Reviewed On: August 2, 2018
About: An image diagram of the standard layout and features of a search page in a database.
Format: png
Recommended Use: Pair with an introductory searching activity.
Licensing: Created at MCPHS.
Reviewed On: August 2, 2018
About: An image diagram of the standard layout and features of a search results page in a database.
Format: png
Recommended Use: Pair with an introductory searching activity.
Licensing: Created at MCPHS.
Reviewed On: August 2, 2018
About: Video demonstrating the iterative process of refining and connecting keywords, and using filters and other database tools in Smart Search and PubMed.
Format: Video.
Recommended Use: Pair with a research-related assignment.
Licensing: Created at MCPHS, using Camtasia, posted on YouTube.
Reviewed On: Feb 27, 2020
About: Video demonstrating the iterative process of going from a question to usable keywords by iteratively searching Smart Search and PubMed.
Format: Video.
Recommended Use: Pair with a research-related assignment.
Licensing: Created at MCPHS, using Camtasia, posted on YouTube.
Reviewed On: Feb 27, 2020
About: Video demonstrating a simple keyword search in MCPHS Smart Search.
Format: Video.
Recommended Use: Use an introduction to simple searching, pair with a research-related assignment, or assign prior to a library workshop.
Licensing: Created at MCPHS, using Wistia Soapbox.
Reviewed On: August 2, 2018
About: Three options for tutorials on how to connect Google Scholar to the MCPHS Library
Format: A short video and step-by-step directions with screenshots.
Recommended Use: Introduction or refresher on how to integrate Google Scholar into your search process. Useful for all levels.
Licensing: Created at MCPHS.
Reviewed On: August 1, 2018
About: Offers basic to expert level interactive tutorials and lessons on recognizing plagiarism and ethically incorporating sources into writing.
Format: external, in-depth, interactive tutorials.
Recommended Use: As a required activity for students beginning a new program.
Licensing How to Acknowledge this Tutorial
Reviewed On: June 27, 2018
About: Practice using a title to find a book in the catalog.
Format: Internal, interactive tutorial.
Recommended Use: As an introduction or review of these skills; offered in connection to a library workshop, INF 110, or a research-related assignment.
Licensing: Created at MCPHS, open source tool.
Reviewed On: August 2, 2018
About: Practice finding literary criticism articles - a particular type of scholarly work.
Format: Internal, interactive tutorial.
Recommended Use: Assign prior to a targeted library workshop, INF 110, and pair with a research-related assignment.
Licensing: Created at MCPHS, open source tool.
Reviewed On: August 2, 2018
About: Practice reading a citation and using it to search in the MCPHS Smart Search.
Format: Internal, interactive tutorial.
Recommended Use: As an introduction or review of these skills; offered in connection to a library workshop, INF 110, or a research-related assignment.
Licensing: Created at MCPHS, open source tool.
Reviewed On: June 27, 2018
About: Concise overview of common sources - brief definitions, simple explanations of the differences between them (quantity, scrutiny prior to publication, etc).
Format: external, webpage infographic
Recommended Use: Good for introducing students to the differences between broad categories of sources and how their distinct characteristics make them useful in difference ways.
Licensing: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommerical-ShareAlike 4.0 International
Reviewed On: June 27, 2018
About: Step-by-step directions on how to limit MCPHS Smart Search results to peer-reviewed articles, augmented by screenshots.
Format: Text and screenshots.
Recommended Use: Use as a reference/reminder as needed.
Licensing: Created at MCPHS.
Reviewed On: August 2, 2018
About: An interactive critical thinking tool developed by the Access to Credible Genetics Resource Network.
Format: External website
Recommended Use: It would be most useful when paired with sources to practice evaluation skills on. It has a "dig deeper" section, so students can be asked to evaluate at increasingly sophisticated levels.
Licensing: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
Reviewed On: August 1, 2018
About: A chart that defines different types of sources that students are likely to encounter.
Format: html table
Recommended Use: Link to or embed as shortcuts to defining and picking a kind of source, based on your question.
Licensing: Created at MCPHS.
Reviewed On: June 27, 2018
About: A chart that connect what kind of information you're looking for with the kind of source mostly likely to have it.
Format: html table
Recommended Use: Link to or embed as shortcuts to defining and picking a kind of source, based on your question.
Licensing: Created at MCPHS.
Reviewed On: June 27, 2018