From the Research Desk

I know what you’re thinking. It’s grueling, tedious and time-consuming. I’m referring to typing research papers and getting the in-text citations right and then typing that bibliography at the end with all that confusing formatting. Well, not anymore. UDM Libraries has a tool that makes the formatting of your citations oh so easy and its called RefWorks. Over the next three weeks, this blog will describe just how powerful a tool RefWorks can be when you are doing a research...

Need historical statistics to back up research for your American History paper?  Here are some readily available resources to help: Historical Abstracts of the United States: from Colonial Times to 1970.  HA 202 .A385 Statistical Abstract of the United States HA202. A useful annual summary of census material.  The earliest volume the library owns is 1898. Historical Statistics of Black America. E 185 .H543 1995 A good website is the Historical Census Browser from the University of Virginia which has...

If you want to make sure to have the broadest access to your UDM  Library resources while you’re off campus, just be sure to take the following steps: 1. Start at the library’s Research Portal 2. Next, in the upper left, look for the link to Knowledge[Blackboard] 3. Open the link to Knowledge[Blackboard] and login with your username and password 4. Then in the upper right, look for the link to the Re:Search Portal 5. Now that you’re back at...