Welcome to the POLS-384 library course guide. It has been designed to introduce students to the library's political studies-focused research tools and provide the guidance required for them to be searched effectively and efficiently.
The learning outcomes of this guide are as follows:
- distinguish between the most common types of citation e.g. book or article;
- understand the concepts of "peer review" and, broadly, "scholarly" as pertains to resources;
- develop an ability to refine search results in Omni, the library's search tool, and Proquest Politics; and
- understand the value of critically appraising information as a crucial component of the research process
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