Tutorials and Guides
General
Using BobCat (Bobst Library Catalog)
- Find a book
- Find videos
- Find music and sound recordings
- Find a screenplay
Call Numbers in BobCat (opens in new window, includes audio)
Subject Headings in BobCat (opens in new window, includes audio)
Find Articles
Databases are collections of articles available to you electronically.
In some databases and collections of articles, there is no full-text link for the article you want. This brief movie shows you how to use the SFX button to search other electronic resources for the full-text of the article you want.
E-Journals are online Journals that provide the full-text of articles they publish.
Research Tools
Want to learn what RefWorks is and how it can enhance and organize your research? This guide gets you started with using RefWorks and includes information on accessing RefWorks, creating an account, making folders to organize your research, and searching and adding BobCat records from within RefWorks.
Want to use advanced RefWork features to share your folders with others, capture citationdata automatically from websites,use RefWorks as your feed reader, or makeRefWorks your default Google Scholar bibiograpy manager? This guide shows you how.
Guides
- What are Primary Sources?
- NYU Libraries for SCPS Students
- Bibliographic and Footnote Style Guide
- Finding Doctoral Dissertations
- GoogleGuide--Making Searching Even Easier
Subject Specific
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Research Guides by Subject
Get recommendations for good indexes, databases, and search strategies in these research guides, organized by subject. -
- Bobst Library Podcast
Episodes include: Finding Primary Sources; Shakespeare Research, and more - Subscribe with iTunes
- Subscribe using another podcast player
- Essentials of Company Research
- This tutorial provides a foundation on which to conduct basic company research and to provide guidance on what sources are most appropriate. All the sources in this tutorial are accessible to NYU students and faculty.
- Classics
Research strategies - History
Getting started with historical research
Nursing Resources A guide to locating books, articles, and websites within the NYU community.
Database Subject Guides
A Simple Search in CINAHL (This 8 1/2 minute movie demonstrates a literature search in the CINAHL database highlighting mapping, combining, exploding, focusing, limits, and navigation to option for full text of articles in the NYU virtual library space. (Opens in new window)
This guide provides information onusing this image database, and includes: account creation information; what art collections are included in ARTstor; using ARTstor for teaching and learning; installing the Offline Image Viewer; and other image collections at NYU.
Accessing ARTstor
