Online Guides and Tutorials

Basic Guides

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

• Off-Campus Access to Electronic Resources

Research Guides

• Using electronic journals via Find Full Text

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

• Guide to Finding Theses

• How to find statistical data

• KAREN Resources This directory contains links to eResearch resources and KAREN (Kiwi Advanced Research and Education Network) related topics.

• Performance Based Research Funding:

  • A Helping Hand with your Evidence Portfolio

  • Citations & Impact: Science

  • Using the Web of Science Database (cited reference searching)

Essay/Report Writing Guides

• Citation Style Guides for Electronic & Internet Sources - Provides links to a number of sites which offer advice on how to cite electronic information using a variety of publishing styles (such as Chicago Style).

• Preparing a Literature Review 

Database Guides

• For guides on database usage refer to the Geography 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.
  

Searching the Internet

• Internet Geographer | Earth Scientist
  These are online tutorials which help you search the Internet for Geography resources, giving searching tips as well as providing links to online Geography resources. The first site is aimed at human geographers, the second provides examples for physical geographers. Tutorials have a British bias, but are very useful nonetheless.
  

Referencing a Map

• How to cite maps.
  Formats are given followed by citation examples.

• Clark, S.M., Larsgaard, M.L. and Teague, C.M. 1992. Cartographic citations: a style guide. Chicago, Map and Geography Round Table of the American Library Association.
  A guide providing assistance in citing maps in all formats, including printed and computer-generated maps, three-dimensional models, remote sensing imagery,diagrams, globes, profiles etc.

File last updated : November 29, 2010 .
Comments and suggestions to Priscilla Cameron