All Teaching Materials

Toolkit

Finding sources for your reading or writing assignment

This interactive tutorial will help students develop a researchable topic and find and cite quality sources from the Library's article search. To get your own copy of the tutorial: please click on the form link below and fill it out so we will know who is making copies of our tutorials and can send you critical updates in the future. You'll then be taken automatically to a page where you can make a copy of the tutorial for use in your class. You will be able to modify your copy of the tutorial to tailor it to your course and can see your students' responses.

Toolkit

From Idea to Library

An overview of the scholarly information cycle and library databases.

Toolkit

Gale eBooks (formerly GVRL)

Explains how to use Gale eBooks (formerly GVRL), which helps you get the background information you need to do a well-informed research project.

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Google Scholar

How to: set preferences to get full-text access while using Google Scholar; save articles to your Google account; obtain full-text articles through the PCC library through Google Scholar; and what to do if you are unable to get full text of an article through Google Scholar.