Tutorial Videos and Digital Learning Objects

Roll Tide Research is a series of interactive tutorials and other multimedia resources focusing on concepts and skills essential to academic research.

Topics: Scholarly & popular sources | Peer-reviewed sources | Primary & secondary sources | Common types and formats of sources

Format: Interactive Tutorial | Estimated Time: 15 min | Optional Quiz

Topics: Strategies for determining if a source is reliable and if it is relevant to your project | Timeliness of sources | Looking up authors & publishers

Format: Interactive Tutorial | Estimated Time: 15 min | Optional Quiz

Topics: Finding your specialist librarian | Using Ask-A-Librarian Online Reference | Using our FAQ | Scheduling a research consultation | Research Guides and tutorials | Branch information

Format: Video | Estimated Time: 3 min

Topics: Choosing a research topic | Conducting background research | Narrowing and broadening topics | Formulating an answerable research question appropriate to your project or assignment

Format: Interactive Tutorial |Estimated Time: 10 min | Optional Quiz

Topics: Identifying the core concepts in a research question | Developing keywords from core concepts | Using keywords as search terms | Identifying discipline-specific keywords

Format: Interactive Tutorial | Estimated Time: 15 min | Optional Quiz

Topics: Using Scout, the Libraries resource discovery tool, to find articles and books | Basic and advanced searching in Scout | Basic concepts in database searching | Finding resources using other research tools at the Libraries

Format: Video Collection | Estimated Time: 12 min

Topics: Understanding citations | What is plagiarism? | When, Why, What, and How to cite | Includes examples in MLA and APA formats

Format: Interactive Tutorial |Estimated Time: 20 min | Optional Quiz

Topics: How to set up and use Refworks, a citation management tool available to UA students and faculty. This software interfaces with Microsoft Word and many major Libraries databases to quickly export, organize, and format your research citations.

Format: Research Guide Webpage | Estimated Time: Self-paced.

These modules were developed in conjunction with First-Year Writing and incorporated into the design of EN102 Online. Their purpose is to provide project-relevant introductions to key concepts and skills relating to information literacy, the research process, and using the Libraries’ services and resources. See "About' for more info.

Topics: Beginning stages of the research process | Choosing and refining a topic | Strategies & techniques for effective searching using library databases & resources & open search tools on the web

Format: Interactive Tutorial & Embedded Video Tutorials | Estimated Time: 30 min | Includes Feedback Survey

Topics: Assessing sources for Reliability, Relevance, and Timeliness | Evaluating scholarly and popular sources | Basics of citation | Incorporating others’ work into your paper ethically | Avoiding accidental plagiarism

Format: Interactive Tutorial | Estimated Time: 20 – 25 min | Includes Feedback Survey