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Guides for Using Research Databases
- Criminal Justice Periodicals Index
- EBSCOhost Databases
- Emerald-Full Text
- ERIC
- Health & Psychosocial Instruments (HaPI)
- LexisNexis Academic
- Medline
- OCLC FirstSearch
- ProQuest Dissertations and Theses
- PsycINFO
Other Library Resources
- APA Citation Guide
- Care of Library Books
- Circuit
- Copyright Compliance Policy for Alliant Community
- How to Connect EndNote to Ebsco Databases
- Give Credit Where Credit is Due: Avoiding Plagiarism and Copyright Infringement
- Grants & RFPs New 9/12
- I Can PsycINFO and So Can You!
- The Job Hunt New 5/12
- Library and University User Accounts
- Library of Congress Classification System
- LINK+
- Measures and Surveys and Scales, Oh My!: A Research Guide for PhD Students
- Mental Health Policy Research New 5/12
- Multicultural Clinical Psychology & the Media New 5/12
- MLA Citation Style
- Organizing Your Research
- Plagiarism Tutorial - A moodle course created by Shawna Hellenius, L.A. Library Director. Alliant users should login to Moodle and add the course by selecting “yes”.
- Presenting: Conferences & Symposiums New 5/12
- Resources for Scholarly Writing & Publishing
- Searching for Case Law in LexisNexis
- Scholarly Journals vs. Popular Magazines
Searching Tip Guides
- Boolean Operators (And/Or/Not)
- How do I locate an item?
- How do I locate an item? (flow chart)
- Proximity Operators
- Truncation and Wildcards
Location Specific Library Publications
More guides may be found on Alliant Library LibGuides.