Research Help

"Research means that you don't know, but are willing to find out." - Charles F. Kettering

Get support with MLA and APA formatting for works cited and paper formats.

Library Research Process

Website Evaluation Tool--Tool to help users evaluate the quality of information on a website from the University of Pittsburgh.

Web Page Evaluation Tool - Tips and advice from Ohio State University Libraries.

Fair Use Evaluation Tool - Tool to help users determine if use of a resource may violate copyright law from University of Minnesota.

AEA Copyright Brief Notes for Students - Print the PDF or add it to your PDF Notes on your iPad.

United States Copyright Law -U.S. Copyright Office guidelines.

How to Follow the Research Process

The Big6 Information Skills for Student Achievement - An approach to teaching information literacy and technology skills.

Guided Inquiry: A framework for learning through school libraries in 21st century schools. - a resource from Rutgers' Center for International Scholarship in School Libraries of research and scholarship about the guided inquiry approach to help students "learn meaningfully from the diverse and complex information sources"