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After completing it you will be able to:

• efficiently use the online catalog iLink to find materials in the LRC collection.
• differentiate scholarly journals from popular & trade magazines.
• use printed indexes to find periodical articles.
• find the appropriateTexShare databases for your research.
• use electronic indexes (TexShare) to find periodical articles
• use iLink's Knowledge Portal to locate relevant and authoritative Internet sources
• use InterLibrary Loans to request books and articles not in the LRC's collection .

You can work through the different modules and activities, one module at a time in any order that you wish. When you have completed all modules, go to Assessment.

To successfully complete this tutorial you need to already have some web and computer skills, as outlined in Requirements. Also, the activities and examples used have been chosen specifically to illustrate how research tools function and the differences between them., work through these to get the full benefit. You can later use your own research topics.