Our Research Tutorial: Guide to Library Research at Cornell


Skill Guides: How to Find Specific Resources

These online guides explain how to find books, periodicals, and other resources in the Cornell University Library. Included are guides explaining how to conduct library research from choosing a topic to citing library resources in the bibliography of a research paper.

For a tutorial that incorporates many of these guides and other suggestions and resources, see the Guide to Library Research at Cornell.


Research Strategy: The Seven Steps of the Research Process

Distinguishing Scholarly from Non-Scholarly Periodicals
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Critically Analyzing Information Sources

How to Prepare an Annotated Bibliography

Bibliographic Citations: Resources and Guides

Finding Book Reviews

Finding the News

Finding Videorecordings and Sound Recordings in the Cornell Library Catalog

How Literature is Structured

Library of Congress Classification

How to Find and Cite Bible Entries


Last update 11 March 2008 [MOE]
Tony Cosgrave and Michael Engle
Reference Department

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