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Find scholarly articles with this one simple click!

Do you need to find quality research articles fast?

Searching Google might bring up millions of hits in seconds, but sorting through the results and figuring out which come from scholarly sources takes time.

Google Scholar can help narrow down your results to publications, but not every result is available for free and some are from journals that are not peer reviewed.

Save yourself time and aggravation by using D’YouSearch. This research tool from the D’Youville Library can help you narrow search results to peer reviewed journal articles with the click of a button.

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Search and cite made easy with D’YouSearch

D’YouSearch is Google for the D’Youville Library collection. It is easy to use and searches across the library collection for a single search box. It has several additional features that make it the ideal starting place for your research including citation help.

Every piece of information that you find in D’YouSearch has a citation attached to it. The citations are in several of the most popular academic styles including APA, AMA and MLA.

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Library Access After Graduation

Are you graduating soon? It is time to figure out which library resources you will still have access to after graduation. The library provides thousands of resources to the D’Youville University community. Upon graduation, you will lose access to all of the online databases the library provides to you as a student. Many online resources are not freely available, so the library spends a high percentage of our budget per year to provide access to online resources for the college community and sadly, these benefits do not extend to student once they have graduated.

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Refworks Enables You to Share Your Knowlege With the Team

Keep your research collaborations easy using Proquest Refworks shareable folders. Pick your partners and share a folder to let them see your contributions to the project or allow them to add items of their own to quickly build a comprehensive knowledge base.

Don’t forget the additional benefit of being able to easily create a works cited page in just about any style from the information you have gathered.

Below are brief instructions for sharing and adjusting folder permissions for D’Youville College library patrons.

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How much are you worth? A short guide to measuring your research efforts

The list of ways to measure the impact a researcher’s work is long, but no single system is comprehensive. Using a single metric may give a distorted perspective. Below are some simple tips you can use to get a balanced view of their work.

The number of citations an author has is a traditional measure of impact. While is easier than ever to get a citation count with the help of Google Scholar, this method may provide a skewed view of an author’s work when used alone.

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