Research
Utah's Online Library
Utah's Online library offers a number of searchable databases. For general research, try EBSCO: High School or GALE Reference Collection High School. NoodleTools is a great way to create a bibliography and manage your citations. For free, downloadable music for creating videos, try Soundzabound. If you're looking for another book to read, try NoveList inside EBSCO: High School for some great book recommendations. For this year's username and password, please contact the library.
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Please use this brief tutorial to learn how to navigate Utah's Online Library. This is not a comprehensive tutorial, to learn more about successful database searching, please see Erin Merrill in the Library Media Center.
To successfully search the databases, it's important to understand how to use keywords and implement keywords. The playlist below walks through the keyword creation process and implementing the process into the search process.
Gale: High Schools
Gale offers a wide reference collection for high school students. This includes Opposing Viewpoints in Context, Gale in Context Biography, and more.
EBSCO: High Schools
EBSCO is a database provider that is utilized in all colleges. EBSCO databases will give you access to books, newspaper articles, magazine articles, peer reviewed articles, academic articles and more. For general research, our librarian recommends searching "Explora High Schools" or "Academic Search Premier." For help with searching the databases, contact Mrs. Merrill at [email protected] or come by the Library Media Center before school, after school, or during lunch. Click the button below to search EBSCO High Schools.
Citation Help
The following links can help you in building and organizing your sources and citations.
Noodle Tools (login with your school email)
Plagiarism is . . .
- Passing someone else's ideas off as your own without giving them credit.
- Directly quoting from another source without using quotation marks and citation.
- Buying or copying an essay from a website.
- Turning in a peer's work as your own.
- Having someone rewrite sections of your paper for you.
- Using your old work (in part or whole), and submitting it for a new assignment.