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Registration for the 5th annual Dalhousie Libraries Research Bootcamp sessions opens Wednesday. April 10, 2019 at 9am. Registration is free. 

Sessions will run from May 13-June 13 and will cover library  and research basics; literature reviews (searching & writing); citation tools and APA citation; writing abstracts and grant proposals;finding information using legal resources, PubMed and other health sciences databases, humanities resources; finding and managing data; Exel; grey literature searching; conference posters; ebooks; plus other neat tools like Covidence, Esri StoryMaps, R, and OpenRefine for data cleaning. 

Full list of sessions and the schedule
Free registration

• Sign into your Novanet Library Account

Sign in to view your library account status -- books you have out on loan, fines, etc. Login is the 14 digit barcode at the bottom of your DalCard starting 21264...; password is usually the last 4 digits of your phone number, unless you have set a separate password.

• Info on off-Campus Access to Dalhousie Libraries' E-Resources

• Document Delivery

To login to the Patron Request Form, your User Login is the number underneath the barcode on your Dal Card, starting 21264...

The User Password is usually the last 4 digits of your phone number on file with the Library, unless you have set a separate password.

• APA Style (6th edition) Quick Guide

A PDF summary of the main points of the 6th edtion (2010) of the APA citation style.

• Citation Style Guides

Links to the most common style guides: APA, MLA, Chicago, NLM, IEEE

• Dalhousie University's Writing Centre

• Studying for Sucess: Help with Studying

• Academic Integrity at Dalhousie

Dal's website to educate and to promote academic integrity among students and faculty.

RefWorks is a web-based citation manager that allows you to compile, edit and format bibliographies by importing references directly from online databases, from text files, or by entering them manually. Easily format your references according to the citation style of your choice (eg. APA, MLA) and insert them into your finished paper.

New books are added to the Sexton Library's collection on an ongoing basis.

The following is a list of titles added over the previous month.