WCI Information Literacy Resources

Learn how to find books, articles, videos, and more using the library's search tool.

This video describes how to use the limiters and advanced search features in an academic database. Find peer reviewed articles, enter a date range, narrow by subject, search by author, and search within the abstract.

When searching for information in the library catalog or a library database, it helps to strategize your search by choosing keywords for your topic. This tutorial will guide you through the process of choosing (and revising) your keywords. *This tutorial can be assigned for credit.

Learn more about the role of books in research and how to find library books. *This tutorial can be assigned for credit.

Learn how to distinguish between scholarly articles and non-scholarly contributions to the scholarly conversation in a search for information. *This tutorial can be assigned for credit.

This video, developed at the University Libraries, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, explores one of the Information Literacy frames, Scholarship as Conversation.

This self-paced video provides an introduction to the research process as a scholarly conversation. It accompanies the Scholarly Party worksheet.

Once you have decided where to look for sources, it is important to determine the best way to retrieve information using a library database.

An exploration of the peer review process and finding scholarly articles.