Library Tutorials

This guide can help develop your search and resource evaluation skills. Each tutorial has a video tutorial you can watch and a click-through tutorial with similar content and opportunities to practice your new skills.

Search Tutorials

• Choosing Keywords
• Boolean Operators
• Truncations
• Using Google Scholar
• Finding and Following Journals
• Finding Images and Videos

Evaluation Tutorials

• Popular vs. Scholarly Sources
• Using Authoritative Sources
• Web Resources

STEM Tutorials

• Using Grey Literature
• Finding Standards
• Finding Technical Reports
• Finding Patents
• Researching Industries and Markets

Unless otherwise noted, all tutorials on this guide are licensed CC-BY-NC. See the attributions box on each page for details.

Use these search tools in your searching to better focus your results.  These tutorials will provide you with tips and examples.

Source: General Library Search Tips, video tutorial, by Emily Bongiovanni

Source: General Library Search Tips, LibWizard tutorial, by Brianna Buljung

Source: Accessing Library Materials Off Campus, video tutorial, by Brianna Buljung

Source: Things Online Students Should Know about the Library, video tutorial, by Brianna Buljung

We highly encourage reuse and adaptation of our tutorials. Unless otherwise noted, all tutorials on this guide are licensed CC-BY-NC. Please use the following attribution format when reusing this content. Contact the librarians on this guide with any questions or feedback.

Attribution:

TUTORIAL NAME, TYPE, by AUTHOR, Colorado School of Mines Arthur Lakes Library, used under a CC-BY-NC license.

Example:

Keyword Search Tips, LibWizard tutorial, by Brianna Buljung, Colorado School of Mines Arthur Lakes Library under a CC-BY-NC license