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Finding Peer-Reviewed Articles in the Library: Saturday, January 12, 10:00 AM Central Get a jump start on the quarter by learning how to search the library databases more effectively. If you need to find articles for your courses, but you sometimes get too many or too few results or results that don’t seem on-topic, then [...]

Winter quarter officially starts today, Monday the 7th. You should already have purchased your required textbooks from the bookstore (see this textbook post for more information), but if you’re not sure how to access your course readings, you can find that information in our Finding Course Readings guide. If your particular question about course readings [...]

There have been some concerns expressed, but fear not! The RefWorks information page is still available as a direct link from the library home page; it just looks a little different these days. Scroll down to the section More Services and Tools. The link is listed as Manage references with RefWorks. Remember, the RefWorks information [...]

Finding Peer-Reviewed Articles in the Library: Thursday, December 6th, 2012, 7:00 PM Central Need to find articles for your coursework? Whether they need to be peer-reviewed or not, if you ever get frustrated that you sometimes get too many or too few results or results that don’t seem on-topic, then this is a great webinar [...]

The Capella University Library is excited to announce the launch of its newly redesigned website. The updated site provides easy access to library resources through a simplified home page. A new tabbed section at the top of the home page enables easy navigation between search functions. Whether you are looking for a specific book by [...]

RefWorks Webinar: Thursday, November 8th, 2012, 7:00 PM Central You’ve learned how to find articles in the library. Now how do you keep track of what you’ve found? Learn how to collect, organize, and store citations from library databases and other resources using RefWorks. If you haven’t been using this handy tool to take control [...]

The library subscribes to both Sage Journals Online and Sage Knowledge, which give you access to hundreds of Sage resources for free, 24/7. For the month of October only, however, Sage is giving free access to ALL of its online resources, including those we don’t subscribe to, such as the Sage Research Methods database. All [...]

We made a change to the Capella University Library Guides home page a few weeks ago that should help you have an easier time getting the help you need to learn library skills; we created a separate Browse by Guide Type box. This can be very useful for those times you know generally what kind [...]

“Finding Peer-Reviewed Articles in the Library” Webinar: Saturday, Oct. 13, 2012, 10:00 AM Central Need to find articles for your coursework? Whether they need to be peer-reviewed or not, if you ever get frustrated that you sometimes get too many or too few results or results that don’t seem on-topic, then this is a great [...]

RefWorks Webinar: Thursday, October 4th, 2012, 7:00 PM Central We’re in the last part of the quarter break, so take advantage of all your free time (no laughing!) to get organized for next quarter. Learn how to collect, organize, and store citations from library databases and other resources using RefWorks. If you haven’t been using [...]