Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Library: Gerontology: Tutorials and Tools

Writing Your Paper

The Art of Topic Development (6 mins.)
Learn how to go from a vague idea of what you'd like to research to a strong, specific topic. The health professions database, CINAHL, and the education database, ERIC via EBSCO, are used to provide examples of the process.
Writing a Literature Review Paper (5 mins.)
Learn how to research, structure and write a literature review paper that synthesizes the key theories and results in your field of study.

Plagiarism Video
Explores plagiarism, paraphrasing, and citing sources. Includes a pre-test, graded quiz, and paraphrasing practice exercises.

Customizing Google Scholar (4 mins.)
Learn how to link Google Scholar with SJSU GetText and RefWorks. This will tell you whether an article found on Google Scholar is available through the library's databases.
PubMed: Using MeSH Terms (5 mins.)
Use MeSH terms to search your topic for precise, narrower results.
Citation Linker
Learn how to use the Citation Linker tool to find an article using just a citation.
Using GetText (4 mins.)
GetText is a program that allows you to find full-text articles even when they're not in the database you're searching. This tutorial provides a brief introduction to using GetText to access the articles you need.
RefWorks Tutorials
This link takes you to a collection of tutorials created by RefWorks. Unlike the "Using RefWorks" tutorial above, which is specific to SJSU students, these provide short, general introductions to several of RefWorks' functions.
The Art of Topic Development
This six minute tutorial shows how to search a hard topic by thinking about it in different ways.
Setting up your Inter Library Loan Account (2mins.)
Placing a Request via Inter Library Loan (3 mins.)