The Research Process

This page groups together guides for searching for book/articles, animated tutorial, evaluating sources, writing/citing/managing bibliographies (RefWorks), thesis assistance, inter-library loans, avoiding plagiarism, putting materials on Reserves, booking videos for classroom showings, etc.).

 First Things First

• Your SFU filespace
  
  • Saving your work at your own personal SFU file space (H Drive)
  • Also try using the "Briefcase" function in SFU Connect.  Create folders and then upload files, including pdfs of articles.
     
• Academic Honesty How to Avoid Plagiarism; Plagiarism Tutorial

• Find scholarly information, citing, managing citations
  
  
  • Start Your Research Here Guide (overview of research process)
    • Library Research Tutorials (animated tutorials on search techniques for finding books and journal articles)
    • Library Catalogue Search Guide (finding books)
    • Finding Journal Articles (finding articles)
      • What is a scholarly, peer-reviewed journal?
      • Try Citation Finder - a handy tool for locating links to full text, print materials, and an Interlibrary Loan form.
         
    • Library Research Concepts Worksheet (Create a concept map / brainstorm keywords / develop search strategy)
    • Research Checklist: Have you done? (for ideas on types of sources available)
       
  • Evaluate Sources
    • How to Critically Evaluate Sources
    • How to Evaluate Websites
    • How to Evaluate Primary Documents Website
    • Suggested Questions for Evaluation of Primary Sources
       
  • Citing your sources
    • Writing and Style Guides
    • APA, MLA, Chicago / Turabian
       
  • Manage Your Bibliographies in your own databases:
    • RefWorks / RefWorks FAQs, RefWorks Training
    • SFU RefWorks Quick Guide (manage your citations)
      

Library Services for you:

• Undergraduate students, Graduate students, Faculty
• Library Services for Distance Education / Faculty of Education Students and Instructors
  
  • i.e. Telebook: Delivery services (books/articles/videos through mail, etc.)
• Scholarly publishing / communication (before signing contracts, look up "author's addendum" under information for authors)
• Inter-library Loans (borrow from other libs.)
  • Try Citation Finder - a handy tool for locating links to full text, print materials, and an Interlibrary Loan form.
• Current awareness services
  • Web feeds and RSS - guide page
• Library Card / Renew Books Online
  • Library card - where to get it
  • View your borrower or ILL record / renew books / set up email notification
• Reserves
  • To place materials on Reserves (for faculty)
  • Making required readings available to students (for faculty)
    
• Booking films for classroom viewing (for faculty)
  • A collection of documentary, art and feature films in 16mm, VHS and DVD formats is available in the Media Resource Centre. Most of the titles in the film collection are licensed for non-theatrical public performance use at SFU.
• Photocopying / Printing FAQs
• FAQsregarding the SFU Library
• Thesis:
  • Thesis Writing Guidelines at SFU,
  • Finding SFU and others theses
  • SFU Library's Institutional Repository for SFU Theses (pdf)
• New Books at SFU (updated weekly)
• Suggest that Library purchase a particular book or email Moninder Bubber (bubber@sfu.ca)