Rivera Library Services

• Collaboration on assignments which require research or information gathering.
• Course-specific guidesto help your students navigate the literature in the field.
  • To view examples of previous course guides go to http://library.ucr.edu/?view=help/guides.
• Database searching aidsthat students can refer to while using one of our many online sources.
  • For Database Quick Tips go to http://library.ucr.edu/?view=help/dbtips.html.
• Instructive handoutswhich show students how to "do" something, such as evaluate Internet sites, develop search strategies, avoid plagiarism, or cite resources.
  • For the full menu of the Library's instructive handouts go to http://library.ucr.edu/?view=help.
• Supplemental reading lists, filmographies, etc.
• Virtual instruction & chat about the research process and information tools.

Resources & Tools

• Link to SCOTTY, the UCR library catalog, as well as to specific search results.

You can link directly to SCOTTY using http://scotty.ucr.edu, or you can link to specific search results by following the steps below:

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  1. Go to SCOTTY
  2. Perform a search
  3. Copy the URL from the address bar
     EX:

     http://scotty.ucr.edu/search~S5/w?SEARCH=ancient+greece+women

  4. Paste the URL directly into your course.

   

  1. Search for your course in SCOTTY either by course name, http://scotty.ucr.edu/search/r
     or by instructor name, http://scotty.ucr.edu/search/p
     EX:

     course

     sociology 110

  2. Copy the URL from the address bar and paste it into your iLearn course.

• Link to course reserves
• Spotlight full-text articles available through the Library's vast collection of Electronic Journals.

& electronic reserves.

You can link to the records for the material you have placed on reserve for your course.

The Library subscribes to numerous E-Journals that allow linking to specific articles. More information on E-Journals can be found at http://library.ucr.edu/?view=find/findejournals.html&c=1.

• Point to online tutorials which orient students to the research process.

• The MAGician tutorial provides a general orientation to research in an academic library.
• The Life Sciences tutorial teaches students how to do research in the sciences, specifically in the Biological Abstracts database, Melvyl, and SCOTTY.
• The OVID tutorial guides users through the use of some of the commonly used features of the OVID web interface used to search Compendex, Biosis, Inspec, and MLA International Bibliography.

• Highlight academic Internet sites found in INFOMINE that have been reviewed and annotated by librarians.

Call or email us to start incorporating iLearn into your course today!