Help videos
Fall 2013 updates
Find updated help videos here, including tutorials on how to use Refworks, Summon, primary vs. secondary sources and more. For information about these videos, contact Justin Harrison, Learning Commons Librarian.
More help videos...
How do I find...?
- Ebooks
- Find this article
- Find this book
- Finding images
- Finding newspapers
- Getting started with reference sources: dictionaries and encyclopedias
- Government documents
- Help videos
- Limit search results to items like video and DVDs
- Locate your book: reading call numbers
- Maps
- Microforms
- Music and Musical scores
- Primary vs secondary sources
- Relevant sources
- Scholarly articles from news stories: news to use
- Scholarly and popular sources
Search smarter, not harder
- Academic integrity
- Assignment calculator
- Evaluating websites
- Getting started with reference sources: dictionaries and encyclopedias
- Google Scholar
- Help from your librarian
- Narrowing a topic
- Professor study tips
- Refworks
- Relevant sources
- Research methods
- Search tips
- Searching Google and library databases
- Searching the catalogue
- Subject guides
- Summon
- Text a librarian
- Using Wikipedia
Navigating the library
- Computers in the library
- Help from your librarian
- Interlibrary loan - ILLO
- Learning Commons
- Library orientation for new students
- Locate your book: reading call numbers
- Mobile site
- Music and media
- Navigate the UVic Libraries website
- Peer helping
- Searching the catalogue
- Special Collections
- Subject guides
- Summon
- Text a librarian
How do I use...?
- Assignment calculator
- Computers in the library
- Embedding in moodle
- Google Scholar
- Infoline
- Interlibrary loan - ILLO
- Make the research come to you: RSS feeds/research alerts
- Microform scanners
- Mobile site
- Music and media
- Navigate the libraries website
- RefWorks
- Searching the catalogue
- Special Collections
- Subject guides
- Summon
- Using Wikipedia
What is...?
- Academic integrity and plagiarism
- Annotated bibliographies
- Assignment calculator
- Electronic theses and dissertations, UVicSpace
- Infoline
- Interlibrary loan - ILLO
- Learning commons
- Locate your book, reading call numbers
- Microforms
- Primary vs secondary sources
- RefWorks
- Research help videos: research tips
- Make the research come to you: RSS feeds/research alerts
- Scholarly and popular sources
- Special Collections
- Subject guides
- Summon
Help me write and learn
- Academic integrity and avoiding plagiarism
- Annotated bibliographies
- Assignment calculator
- Citation style guides with APA examples
- Define a thesis statement
- Evaluating websites
- Getting started with reference sources: dictionaries and encyclopedias
- Help from your librarian
- Making sense of essay topics
- Narrowing a topic
- Peer helping
- Planning a paper
- Professor study tips
- Reading citations
- RefWorks
- Relevant sources
- Research methods
- Structuring your writing
- Talk to instructors
- The Writing Centre
- Write systematically