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Get Started with Research?
- Using AI Understanding AI tools’ strengths, weaknesses, and biases will empower you to appropriately leverage the power of generative AI to support your writing across a variety of academic, professional, and personal pursuits.
Evaluate Sources?
- Finding Related SourcesThis guide will walk you through how to find sources related to your topic and the research you are doing.
Access Sources?
- Open Access Databases This page lists specialized databases that are free and open.
Cite & Organize Sources?
- Citation Managers Citation organizers (or reference managers) store and organize citation information for a variety of research resources for easy representation in a variety of citation styles. These programs allow you to build reference libraries for many information sources, including journal articles, books and book chapters, audiovisual materials, websites, and more.
- Zotero Citation ManagerCitation organizers (or reference managers) store and organize citation information. USU Libraries supports Zotero, an easy to use, free, open-source citation management program
- Synthesizing Your ResearchSynthesis requires you to make sense of all the relevant ideas in your sources and blend them together with your own thoughts and ideas. This guide will help you through synthesizing your research.
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