Library Home Page -- www.wou.edu/library

Purdue OWL Online Writing Lab -- APA Formating and Style Guides

EasyBib is an automatic citation & bibliography composer for APA, MLA, and Chicago/Turabian styles. 

EasyBib is also available from the library home page under My Accounts.

If you are not using a citation composer yet, choose EasyBib rather than NoodleBib, as we are phasing that one out. 

Step 1: View the following tutorial on Using Wikipedia to Find Background Information, Generate Search Terms, and Find Useful Sources.

Step 2: Complete the following worksheet

To get to Wikipedia go to: www.wikipedia.org

Step 1: View the following tutorial on Advanced Google Searching.

Step 2: Complete the following worksheet on Advanced Google Searching.

To get to Google Advanced Search, go to www.google.com and select "Advanced Search" under the Tool icon

Step 1: View the following tutorial on Newspapers--Understanding Who Creates Them and How You Can Use Them in Your Research.

Step 2: Complete the following worksheet on Newspaper Research  

The library has two newspapers databases: Lexis Nexis and Newspaper Source.

To get to Lexis-Nexis, go to the library home page www.wou.edu/library / Select Articles and Database under the Find Information tab / From the Short Cuts to... menu (right side of screen) select Lexis-Nexis.

To get to Newspaper Source, go to the library home page www.wou.edu/library / Select Articles and Database under the Find Information tab / From the alphabetical list at top of page, select the letter N / from list of databases select Newspaper Source.