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A quick start guide to using the D’Youville Library collection.

Welcome to the D’Youville Library! This short guide will help get you started with your research. It includes research support services and resources to help you complete any level research project.

The library has thousands of books and access to millions of articles through its large collection of databases. There are dozens of databases to choose from, so it can be quite confusing to start. Getting to know the library research resources will help you get the best results, so it is helpful to take some time to learn how to navigate our system.

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Student success in seven books!

Welcome to college! As part of our mission to support student academics, we have combed through our collection of books in the library looking for books to help students joining the D’Youville community this semester.

These books cover a range of topics such as how to study, interact with faculty, manage your time, stay motivated and many other issues that you will encounter at some point during your scholarly journey.

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This library resource can give you everything you need to write a great persuasive research paper.

Are any of these common problems stopping you from starting that persuasive research paper?

– not sure what to write about

– don’t understand the topic you have selected

– too many search results

– finding opinions from questionable sources

These problems are common, but we have a solution.

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An easy to use template for better research results.

Many students starting a research project are soon overwhelmed by the amount of information they find. Although many initially fear they will not find sufficient resources, they quickly learn that too much information is also a significant problem. It often leads to the researcher writing an uninteresting and unoriginal overview.

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Make your research more manageable by managing your citations.

As a student you will probably collect all kinds of interesting information to help you with your studies. Many of these will be for research projects in various classes. Some will be useful throughout your time as a student, while others may only be useful for a specific paper. Quick and effortless retrieval of key citations from your collection will allow you to concentrate on writing a better paper.

Bookmarking web sites is simple. You can save and categorize your favorite web sites with a simple button click. Saving the results of your hard work on research projects is often much more complicated. It doesn’t have to be.

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