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.

Below are samples of how a Librarian and faculty collaborated to incorporate library skills into course assignments using iLearn. These worksheets were posted to the iLearn course by the Librarian and used in conjunction with a course-related library instruction session.

These were CHASS Connect courses.

English 14 Captivity Narratives: Evaluation of Sources Worksheet (pdf) European Civilization 030W Themes in French Civilization: Evaluation Worksheet for Film Reviews (pdf)

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:

•  
  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!

Rivera Library	Science Library
Norma Juarez: (951) 827-5895 norma.juarez@ucr.edu	Julie Mason: (951) 827-2817 jmason@ucr.edu

 

 

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