Social and Behavioral Sciences Commons^™

Hidden Gems Of The Library, Maria A. Perez-Stable

Hacking the Stacks: The Inside Scoop on Library Resources for Graduate Level Research

Hidden Gems of the Library

• Become more conversant with searching library catalogs, especially for books and electronic books
• Select and explore relevant databases in their respective disciplines
• Do more thorough literature searches on their topic by using advanced features and techniques

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Hacking the Stacks: The Inside Scoop on Library Resources for Graduate Level Research

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Citation Management & Avoiding Plagiarism, Kate Langan

Hacking the Stacks: The Inside Scoop on Library Resources for Graduate Level Research

The Ethics of Writing & Citation Management

• Identify the benefits and usefulness of citation management software (CMS)
• Learn how to get the most out of CMS to organize different research projects
• Define plagiarism and various forms it takes and where to go to help avoid plagiarism
• Discuss the ethics of writing, plagiarism in particular, and how CMS can help you
• Learn how to fold ethical writing practices into your research in order to avoid plagiarism

Thinking Ahead: Dissertations & Theses, Maira Bundza

Hacking the Stacks: The Inside Scoop on Library Resources for Graduate Level Research

Thinking Ahead: Dissertations & Theses

• Find other dissertations in their field from the U.S. and internationally
• Understand depositing options for their dissertations in ProQuest and in ScholarWorks, the WMU institutional repository