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How to find your KCU Resources – Off Campus Access

 


Young Library provides research materials in both print and electronic formats. All students, faculty, and staff have 24/7 access to electronic research materials wherever an internet connection is available. Professional full-time staff members are available in the library 74 hours a week for one-on-one consultation. Library staff can be contacted in person, by phone, or by e-mail.

To Begin Your Research

  1. Identify and define your topic
  2. Gather background information and develop search terms
  3. Locate print and electronic resources (books, streaming video, journal articles) in Young Library using KCU’s Online Catalog/ Discovery System.  You may also use other catalogs – WorldCat – to locate off site materials available through Inter-library Loan.
  4. Search journal databases for electronic and full-text articles – Off-Campus Username and Password
  5. Find additional internet resources. Consider government websites, academic sites, and scholarly sites.
  6. Evaluate all information.  Consider author information/ perspective, How is the article useful to answering your research question?
  7. Maintain citation information on all resources used

Planning Your Research Project

Locating information is one part of completing a research assignment.  To help you with planning, researching, drafting, writing, and completing your research assignment, we recommend that you use this Assignment Calculator from the University of Minnesota.  Put in the date assigned and the due date.  A step-by-step guide will be generated to help you complete your assignment successfully.  Please contact the library if you have any questions.

Assignment Calculator from the University of Minnesota

Assignment Calculator | University of Minnesota Libraries. https://www.lib.umn.edu/services/ac. Accessed 10 Aug. 2023.

 

 

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