Online Guides and Tutorials

Basic Guides

• Using Voyager, the Library Catalogue - on-line tutorial

• Off-Campus to Access Electronic Resources

• Biological Research Publication - a study guide
  
  

Research Guides

• InfoQuest - The Online Guide to Finding Journal Articles in Biological Sciences

• Primary, Review and Popular Journals, what are the differences?

• Interpreting References - A guide on how to distinguish between different types of publications, with notes on how to locate them in the library. 

• Using electronic journals via Find Full Text

• Guide to Finding Theses

• How to find statistical data

Essay/Report Writing Guides

• The Confused Undergrads Guide to Getting Good Marks in Biology (Prepared for the School of Biological Sciences, University of Auckland by Paul Barnett and Emma Marks)

• Preparing Annotated Bibliographies: try the Writers Handbook or the Online Writing Lab. 

• Preparing a Literature Review

• EndNote - Information on using EndNote (bibliography maker), helpsheets, tutorial times, online tutorial etc.

• Referencing for Biological Sciences, using the APA referencing style, with examples.

Database Guides

• For guides on database usage refer to the Biological Sciences Database list on Library website, click on the database name and then scroll to the bottom of the screen for downloadable database help sheets.

• Web of Knowledge and Alerts, how to create alerts for various ISI databases that the library subscribes to — especially Current Contents and Web of Science, the citation database.

File last updated : July 15, 2011 .
Comments and suggestions to : John Lavas