Research Help

Tutorials and Videos

• Saddleback College Library YouTube Channel
• Bias and Fake News from Drexel University Libraries
• Scholarly vs. Popular from Peabody Library
• Anatomy of a Scholarly Article from NCSU Libraries
• How to read a research article from UTSA Libraries
• Evaluating Internet Resources from John Hopkins
• Searching with Boolean operators from Carnegie Vincent Library

Research Help Guides

• Library Basics (pdf)
• Locating Information (pdf)
• Articles Chart (pdf)
• Scholarly Articles Checklist (pdf)
• Evaluating Web Sources (news and websites) (pdf)
• Evaluating a Source Chart (pdf)
• Common U.S Domain Chart (pdf)
• Research Project Worksheet (pdf)

Citation Help Guides

• APA Citations (pdf)
• MLA Citations (pdf)
• Saddleback College Library Citation Guide
• RefWorks

Alternative Search Engines

• Google Advanced Search
• Duckduckgo (no tracking filter)
• Bing

Free Scholarly Resources

• Directory of Open Access Journals
• Google Scholar
• Google Books
• HighWire Press (Free Online Full-text Articles)
• Library of Congress American Memory (Good for Primary Sources)

Government, Reports, Statistics, and Policy

• A-Z List of Federal Agencies
• American FactFinder
• Current legislative activities of the House and Senate
• The Daily Journal of the United States Government

Fact Checking News Sources

• AllSides.com
• FactCheck.org
• ProCon.org

Think Tanks

• PEW Research Center
• Public Policy Institute of California
• RAND Corporation

Research and Writing Help

• Assignment Calculator - University of Minnesota Libraries
• Saddleback College Writing Center - LRC 210
• LRC Tutoring Services - LRC 212
• Online Writing Lab at Purdue University

Library Instruction

There are many ways to work with a librarian at the Saddleback Library!

For Students:

• Meet with a Librarian! For one-on-one research help with a librarian, please fill out the request form. A librarian will contact you with details about your appointment.
• Library Credit Courses
• Library Workshops

For Professors/Instructors:

• Instruction Requests
  Please read the Library Instruction Policy to see if your class would benefit from a specialized instruction or a scheduled in-person or online Information Competency Workshop.
• Instruction Policy
• Specialized Library Instruction Request To schedule a specialized library instruction, please complete the request form.

For Librarians:

• Books & eBooks Survey
• Finding Articles
• Internet Searching
• Planning Your Research

Questions?
Please contact Carolyn Seaman for verification of student attendance,
cseaman@saddleback.edu or (949) 582-4459.