Tutorials and Guides
Using BobCat-the Bobst Library Catalog to find items:
- Find a book (HTML guide)
- Find videos (HTML guide)
- Find music and sound recordings (HTML guide)
- Find a screenplay (HTML guide)
Using Databases & E-Journals to find articles:
- Using Databases
Databases include collections of searchable articles (by topic, author, journal, etc). Many articles found in NYU subscribed databases are available to you online and in full-text (the whole article). - Using E-Journals
E-Journals are online Journals that provide the full-text of articles they publish.
Research Tools and Guides:
RefWorks
RefWorks is an online tool designed to help you manage your research, format your citations, etc.
- Getting Started with RefWorks
- Essential RefWorks
Want to learn what RefWorks is and how it can enhance and organize your research? This guide gets you started with using RefWorks and includes information on accessing RefWorks, creating an account, making folders to organize your research, and searching and adding BobCat records from within RefWorks. - Advanced RefWorks
Want to use advanced RefWork features to share your folders with others, capture citation data automatically from websites,use RefWorks as your feed reader, or makeRefWorks your default Google Scholar bibiograpy manager? This guide shows you how.
Other Guides
- What are Primary Sources?
- NYU Libraries for SCPS Students
- Bibliographic and Footnote Style Guide
- Finding Doctoral Dissertations
- GoogleGuide--Making Searching Even Easier
Bobst Library Podcast
Episodes include: Introduction to RefWorks; Finding Primary Sources; Shakespeare Research, and more...
Subject Guides & Tutorials
- Essentials of Company Research
This tutorial provides a foundation on which to conduct basic company research and to provide guidance on what sources are most appropriate. All the sources in this tutorial are accessible to NYU students and faculty. - Classics
- Getting Started with Historical Research
- Nursing Resources
A guide to locating books, articles, and websites within the NYU community.
Database Subject Guides
- CINAHL Database Tutorial
A Simple Search in CINAHL (This 8 1/2 minute movie demonstrates a literature search in the CINAHL database highlighting mapping, combining, exploding, focusing, limits, and navigation to option for full text of articles in the NYU virtual library space. (Opens in new window) - This guide provides information onusing this image database, and includes: account creation information; what art collections are included in ARTstor; using ARTstor for teaching and learning; installing the Offline Image Viewer; and other image collections at NYU.
Accessing ARTstor
