Tutorials

General Tutorials:
Sources for research come from a wide variety of places. In addition to print-based sources such as books, magazines and newspapers, students now have access to electronic databases, email and websites. The common cry today is "so much information, so little time." Use one of the tutorials below as your guide to making sense of it all.

• CONNECT for Success - (VCCS Information Literacy Tutorial) - This is the research tutorial used at VWCC in selected English 112 classes. There are modules covering: orientation to the library, searching an electronic database, finding information sources, using internet sources, evaluating sources and constructing a search strategy.
• Pandia Search Engine Tutorial - Find the difference between search engines and directories and learn the best ones to use. Find out how to construct the best search strategy so that you get the results you want and weed out the garbage.
• TILT created by the University of Texas - This is an alternate research tutorial.

Database Tutorials:
Find out how to get the most out of the library databases by taking one of the online tutorials below. 

• JSTOR - created by Pepperdine University
• Ovid - created by Ovid Publishing
• PsycINFO - by the American Psychological Association. This is a guide, rather than a tutorial.