Online Tutorials

Here are some guides to research tools and techniques for getting the most out of library, Internet, and software resources. For more extensive assistance, you can request a Personal Research Session or a Software Assistance Session. For immediate assistance with briefer questions, try ReferenceNow's Live Help. 

An overview of skills and techniques for effectively searching the library and Internet, evaluating what you find, getting things from other libraries, and citing what you use.

Contents

• Subject Specific Guides
  Guides to research sources for each department or major program at Wesleyan.
   
• General Guides for:

 Internet and Software for Research

• Finding Information on the Web
  How to find the sites you want out of the billions of pages available.
   
• Web Publishing with MS FrontPage How to create a web site, just for fun or for a class project.
• Presentations with PowerPoint
  Use graphics, animation, and sound to create a class presentation.
• Spreadsheets with Excel
  The basics of using a spreadsheet to format and calculate data in tables and charts.
   
• EndNote
  Software for managing extensive bibliographies