BE 501 - Research Methods

The Getting Started suite of tutorials includes: What Types of Sources Do I Need, How Do I Create a Search Strategy, Should I Rethink My Search, How Do I Evaluate Online Information, How Do I Give Credit to the Ideas of Others, Popular vs Scholarly Sources, Anatomy of a Scholarly Article, Mind Mapping for Focusing Your Topic.

These guides will take you step by step through using specific databases or topics.

Primary sources are original documents created at the time of an event, such as a newspaper account, photographs, or videos. Primary sources also include diaries, memoirs, interviews, and other records that document a past event.

Sources are considered primary, secondary, or tertiary depending on the originality of the information and how close they are to the source of information. [Relevant to other science and social science disciplines.]