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Research Guides@Tufts

Tufts Summer Pre-College Programs

Tutorial Sequence

Note: These tutorials will only work while on the Tufts campus (Medford, Boston, or Grafton), or if you are running the Tufts VPN Client from off-campus.

Engaging with Information: In this tutorial, you will learn about standard evaluation criteria that will help you quickly and accurately evaluate information on websites found through Google, Bing or Yahoo.

Google, Google Scholar, and Library Databases: In this tutorial, you will learn the differences between the information available in Google, Google Scholar, and library databases.

Finding Articles with Academic Search Premier: In this tutorial, you will learn how to find different types of articles with Academic Search Premier, one of the library's most popular databases.

Searching the Libraries’ Collections with JumboSearch: This tutorial will introduce you to the Tisch Library's JumboSearch discovery tool, as well as give you some quick tips on how to best use it and when to use it.

Working with Articles: In this tutorial, you will learn about some different types of articles that you'll encounter when conducting academic research.

Reading Citations: In this tutorial, you will learn how to read and understand citations.