Do you sometimes find that looking for pictures using Google’s Image Search can be a little bit overwhelming?
Did you know that you can filter your image search by colour?
In this article, Google Search Educator Tasha Bergson-Michelson shows you how it works, and also gives several examples of when the colour filter can be useful (some academic, some less so…).
Give it a try, and see if this different way of narrowing your search results works for you!
Researching? Having trouble keeping track of your books, articles, & websites? Try RefWorks!
What IS RefWorks?
A web-based tool that can help you gather and manage your research.
Once your information/citations are in RefWorks, create bibliographies of your sources, in any style, in seconds!
Where IS RefWorks?
In the LibGuides:
From the Library’s Website:
How do I get started?
Now what?
As you find useful sources in our Databases (articles), or using WorldCat (books), export your citations to RefWorks.
For more information on RefWorks call us at 403.342.3152, email us at rdclibrary@gmail.com, or visit the Library Information Desk.
Many of you may be familiar with RefWorks, the online citation and research management tool. At RDC, we have obtained a license to this product, so it is now available to our campus community.
For those new to RefWorks, this is a great tool for managing your research. As you search for materials (articles, books), you can export citations to RefWorks (after creating your personal account). Within your personal account, you can create different folders to manage your various research projects. From those citations, you can create bibliographies in the appropriate format (APA, MLA, etc.).
If you are in one of our article databases, you can save directly to RefWorks (works with almost every database we have). If you want to go directly to your personal RefWorks account, find the link on our find articles page. Or you can bookmark the RefWorks Login Centre – this is also the place where you can access the RefWorks tutorial (look in the upper right-hand corner).
If you have any feedback on this tool, please contact Kristine Plastow, Collections Librarian. via email or phone (403-342-3578).
This week, we’ve compiled a list of three things you need to know about some of our library resources, to make them work for you. (more…)
Over the past few months, RDC Library has added over 30 new article databases to their collection, along with a variety of other resources. Come to this session to hear about these new resources and discuss what they mean for student research (and your own!).
Facilitators: Michelle Edwards Thomson & Kristine Plastow
Date: Wednesday, May 9, 2007
Time: 1:00 – 2:15 p.m. Room: 1006R (Library Instruction Lab)
Faculty and students at RDC now have full-text access to 5 new journals via RDC’s subscription to the Project Muse database.
The following 5 journals were added to Project Muse in January & February:
For those of you who are unfamiliar with the Project Muse database, you can learn more about it by visiting their website.
Project Muse is accessible via the Articles Section of the library website.
Here is an interesting story that you can share with your students when they ask why they can’t cite Wikipedia in their papers!
Please let your students know that library staff will be in the forum to help them with their research on the following dates:
Tuesday, February 13
Wednesday, February 14
Monday, February 26
Tuesday, February 27
We will be there each day from 11am – 1pm.
Students are always welcome to come to the library for research help, but we hope that by taking the library to them that we can make our services more accessible and a lot less scary.
Stop by to say hello and pick up your very own library fortune!
Well, you have come to the right place.
As part of our membership in The Alberta Library (TAL) the students and faculty of RDC will benefit from a new initiative called the Lois Hole Campus Alberta Digital Library.
For Red Deer College students and faculty this means over 30 new article databases at their research disposal! History students can check out World History Collection. Political science students may be interested in International Political Science Abstracts. Hospitality and Tourism students can check out Hospitality & Tourism Complete. There are dozens more – databases that will be of interest to students in sociology, native studies, philosophy, the sciences, and other subjects.
Our alphabetical list of databases identifies the LHCADL databases with a logo.
Click here for more information about this initiative.
