Using Library Resources
Finding, evaluating and citing your resources
MBE 330 Applied Studies of Marine Megafauna- Spring 2026
Finding Resources
Where to go
Evaluating Resources
What questions to ask
Saving Resources
Exporting citations
Citing Resources
Where to store them How to add them to your doc
Empirical
Some Key Terms
Peer Reviewed
Literature Review
Abstract
Citation
Introduction
Click on the term for more information
Bibliographic Tool
Methods
Results
Discussion/Conclusion
References
How do you want to search?Everything Library Catalog Digital Collections Course Reserves
Type in your search terms, seach string
When you get your results, be sure to use the limitors on the left side of the page!
Don't get stuck Find an expert!
A great jumping off point if you don't know where to start
New Databases and Guides Updated often!!
Evaluating Sources
Ask Questions
- What are the author's credentials?
- What is the purpose of the article?
- Is the main question clear?
- Does the summary reflect the paper?
- Who published the article?
- How current is it?
- Is the article peer- reviewed?
- Are there potential biases?
How you search matters..
Booleans
Broad Topic
Refine Terms
Use limitors
Final Selections
Bibliographic Research Tools
Keeping your citations organized, shareable, and adding them to your written works!
Links to references
STEM Writing Guide
Citation Guide
Endnote
Refworks
Zotero
A-Z Databases
Brooklyn College - Google Scholar
EBSCO Connect - Boolean Operators
Oregon State University Scholarly Article
Workshops
Abstract
Brief summary of an entire article, the purpose, methods, results and conculsion.
Literature Review
Summary of existing knowledge and significant studies on a topic or subject area. Summary information is listed as a written document and a listing of citations.
Bibliographic research tools
Software designed to help, collect, organize, manage and cite sources for academic writing. Popular systems are : RefWorks EndNote Mendelay Zotero
Introduction
Part of an academic article that sets the background, context, and research hypothesis or question.
Empirical
Research based on observation, experimentation or data, NOT on theory only.
Peer Reviewed
The process where experts in a particular field evaluate the article, chapter, or written work before it is published.
Methods
Part of an academic article that details the study design, participants, tools, and procedures for the investigation or experiment.
Citation
A formal reference to another work, consisting of the work's author, title of publication, date published, source of publication, publisher, and DOI.
Discussion / Conclusion
A part of an academic paper that discusses the interpretation of the results, relating them to existing research, discusses limitations or issues, and suggests options for future research on the topic.
Results
Part of an academic paper that presents the study findings, with data , charts or tables.
Refine your results
Use the options on the library webpage to refine your search results.
Library.miami.edu
- Availability
- Resource type
- Date of publication.
- Author / Creator
- Subject
- Journal title
- and more
References
A list of citation details, ( author, date, title , source, doi) for a given book, article, proceeding or other academic work that was used in the production of the current work.
Use your resources
And / Or / Not - Boolean operators
- allows you to narrow or broaden results
- AND search contains all search terms
- OR results contain at least one search term
- NOT results do not contain the specific term
for more information on Bollean operators click here
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Using Library Resources
Finding, evaluating and citing your resources
MBE 330 Applied Studies of Marine Megafauna- Spring 2026
Finding Resources
Where to go
Evaluating Resources
What questions to ask
Saving Resources
Exporting citations
Citing Resources
Where to store them How to add them to your doc
Empirical
Some Key Terms
Peer Reviewed
Literature Review
Abstract
Citation
Introduction
Click on the term for more information
Bibliographic Tool
Methods
Results
Discussion/Conclusion
References
How do you want to search?Everything Library Catalog Digital Collections Course Reserves
Type in your search terms, seach string
When you get your results, be sure to use the limitors on the left side of the page!
Don't get stuck Find an expert!
A great jumping off point if you don't know where to start
New Databases and Guides Updated often!!
Evaluating Sources
Ask Questions
How you search matters..
Booleans
Broad Topic
Refine Terms
Use limitors
Final Selections
Bibliographic Research Tools
Keeping your citations organized, shareable, and adding them to your written works!
Links to references
STEM Writing Guide
Citation Guide
Endnote
Refworks
Zotero
A-Z Databases
Brooklyn College - Google Scholar
EBSCO Connect - Boolean Operators
Oregon State University Scholarly Article
Workshops
Abstract
Brief summary of an entire article, the purpose, methods, results and conculsion.
Literature Review
Summary of existing knowledge and significant studies on a topic or subject area. Summary information is listed as a written document and a listing of citations.
Bibliographic research tools
Software designed to help, collect, organize, manage and cite sources for academic writing. Popular systems are : RefWorks EndNote Mendelay Zotero
Introduction
Part of an academic article that sets the background, context, and research hypothesis or question.
Empirical
Research based on observation, experimentation or data, NOT on theory only.
Peer Reviewed
The process where experts in a particular field evaluate the article, chapter, or written work before it is published.
Methods
Part of an academic article that details the study design, participants, tools, and procedures for the investigation or experiment.
Citation
A formal reference to another work, consisting of the work's author, title of publication, date published, source of publication, publisher, and DOI.
Discussion / Conclusion
A part of an academic paper that discusses the interpretation of the results, relating them to existing research, discusses limitations or issues, and suggests options for future research on the topic.
Results
Part of an academic paper that presents the study findings, with data , charts or tables.
Refine your results
Use the options on the library webpage to refine your search results.
Library.miami.edu
References
A list of citation details, ( author, date, title , source, doi) for a given book, article, proceeding or other academic work that was used in the production of the current work.
Use your resources
And / Or / Not - Boolean operators
for more information on Bollean operators click here