Weeding Out BS Avoid falling victim to BS (bad sources)
Research Survival Guide This short guide will help you get started with research at Cal, along with five simple tips to survive (and thrive) in your research.
Schedule an appointment Undergraduates with social sciences and humanities questions can schedule an online meeting with a librarian.
Evaluating Information Worksheet (Google Doc)
Use these questions to help decide whether a source is a good fit for your research project.
Google Scholar is an easy way to do interdisciplinary research, and with some settings changes can become even more useful. You need a bMail or Google account to use some of these features. To make Google display links to full text of articles that Berkeley subscribes to: Open Scholar and click on Settings. Under Library Links, enter the word "Berkeley" and click search (if you are connected to the internet via the campus, Google Scholar will have the correct boxes selected for you). In the list of options that appears, check the boxes for anything University of California, Berkeley.