Research Guides: Hispanic College Institute: Home

How to Use this Guide

Welcome!

This is an FHSU subject guide designed for participants of the FHSU Hispanic College Institute, but it is open for anyone to use. This guide will go over how to conduct academic, college level research as well as show you free resources that are available to the public and not just enrolled students.

Library Resources vs the Internet

This video discusses why searching with library database is more effective than searching the internet, covering the following topics:

What are scholarly sources and/or peer-reviewed articles?
- Where to find scholarly sources
Advantages of using library databases instead of searching the internet

How to Embed This Tutorial in Blackboard:

Select and copy (Ctrl+C) all of the following Embed Code text:
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In Blackboard, create and name an Item (or any other Blackboard tool that includes the standard Text Editor)
Click the HTML button at the bottom right of the Tool Buttons to open the HTML editor
Paste (Ctrl+V) the embed code within the HTML window and click Update and Submit.

Link to VidGrid Video: https://use.vg/Fk9ICi

Other LibGuides (like this one!)

Sarah Lawrence College
This guide from Sarah Lawrence's Library will show you how to find resources both in and out of their library, including free images, newspaper articles, and they have some pretty great infographics on source evaluation.
University of Delaware Library
Here is a research guide on evaluating online information that defines different types of fake news, fact checking resources, and evaluation techniques.
University of Missouri Kansas City Libraries
This guide was created for a speech writing class. The guide covers materials that would be useful for a class assignment as well as when and how to incorporate citations in your speech.