Getting Started with College Research

If your students are just getting started with college research, this video lesson will teach them some of the key characteristics of this type of research as well as demonstrate how to search for peer-reviewed sources in a library database.

Key Topics

Characteristics of college research: 5:00

What are scholarly sources?: 6:53

What is peer review?/Characteristics of peer-reviewed sources: 14:06

Library database demonstration: 22:18

Getting help with research: 49:58

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