Wiley publishers now has a line of apps you can use. They have a wide range of topics, including:
Test preparation, News, vocabulary, learning languages, health and medicine, stack trading, Science, Cooking, Business, Sports and more.
If you want to learn more or browse through the apps that are offered take a look at Wiley's Webpage.
(Note, not all apps are available on all platforms and some may have a cost of purchase.)
I'm sure many students are busy writing papers this time of the term. With paper writing comes the citation and works cited pages at the end of those papers. The library has tools and resources to help you with those citations on the Citing Sources page.
Paper-writing involves much more than doing citations, so, although that popular section is worth a visit the citing & writing section also includes Research and Writing Tips. Librarians try to link UHD students to valuable, high-quality web resources on these topics.
The library also has several research guides on citing and writing topics such as plagiarism, legal citations, grammar and more. We also have guides on two of the more common used citations styles. APA and MLA. The guides have citation examples by material type, sample References/Works Cited pages, and other helpful information. Need more citation help? Ask a librarian! We'll point you in the right direction.
Your professor wants you to write a paper using sources from scholarly journals. What does that mean? Why does it matter? And how do you find such things?
Scholarly journals are specialized publications that feature original research or analysis written by experts. Most scholarly journals are peer-reviewed or refereed -- that means every article is reviewed by a panel of experts before it is accepted for publication. Your professor wants you to use scholarly journals because they are considered the most accurate and reliable sources for university-level work.
How do you find scholarly journals? Start with the Databases & Articles section of the library website. When choosing a database, read the description to find out if the database covers journals. Once you choose a database, look for a "scholarly journals" option on the search page. Most databases have this option. Choose the "scholarly journals" option to limit your search.
To find out more about scholarly or peer reviewed journals and how they differ from popular magazines or trade journals, check out the Peer-Review or Scholarly Journals page.
When writing a research paper, you will need to incorporate other people’s statements and ideas into your writing, in order to provide expert support for your ideas. When you do this, you will need to make it clear to a reader where you found these statements and ideas, whether in a book, an article, on the internet, in a film, by talking to someone personally, or through any other means. This shows a reader that you did your research, and also allows her to find that same information if it interests her.
Plagiarism is when you use the work or ideas of someone else in your own work without giving credit to the original source. Sometimes people intentionally cheat by trying to pass a paper as their own work, but, very often, plagiarism happens by accident.
Regardless of the intention, plagiarism can have serious consequences. The UHD Student Handbook includes an Academic Honesty Policy (PS 03.A.19) with a definition of plagiarism and procedures for faculty to follow when they suspect a student may have plagiarized or cheated on a paper. Penalties for plagiarism can include a failing grade (F) for a course.
The UHD library has a research guide all about plagiarism, understanding it and avoiding it. Take a look at it for more information or help. You can also take a look at the Academic Honesty web page.
UHD library users have instant access to over 5000 streaming educational videos with Films on Demand: Digital Educational Video.
This web-based video delivery system provides a wide range of streaming video titles in four collections: Business and Economics; Health; Humanities and Social Sciences; and Science, from companies such as Films for the Humanities and Sciences, Cambridge Educational, Shopware, Meridian Education, and several major television networks. New films are added periodically.
With Films on Demand, you can:
Any UHD student, faculty or staff member can access Films on Demand, along with other streaming media resources, on our Audio & Video page.
In addition, faculty can embed links to specific films or film segments in Blackboard Vista.
Students, Faculty, and Staff - Please be aware that we are having some intermittent problems with some of the library form on our web page.
If you have requested an instruction class, a research consultation, or applied for a TexShare card and do not hear back from someone in the library in a couple days, we may not have received your request.
Library staff and IT are working hard to quickly resolve this issue. In the mean time, if you feel you have been overlooked please contact the library either through the Ask-A-Librarian service, or calling the reference desk at 713-221-8187.
We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.
Academic Video Online features full-length streaming videos covering a variety of subjects including:
*History
*Art
*Business
*Criminal Justice
*Counseling and Therapy
*Humanities
*Science
*Sociology
*Languages and Literature
Subjects can be searched together or individually. Check out the database here for more information!
The UHD library has lots of great databases and resources online. But, did you know that you can use them from home, or off campus in general? All you need to know is your UHD network
account and you have access to it all anywhere you can get to the internet.
You can browse through an A-Z listing of databases or if you are interested in subject related sources check out the Research Guides by subject.
NOTE: You must be registered during a semester to be considered a current student.
If you run into technical issues you might want to look at our connecting to databases webpage for some common trouble shooting. For other issues report the problem by using Ask a Librarian or call the Information Desk at 713-221-8187. If you see an error message when you try to connect, please tell us what the message says.
Ever try to find a book or article or other materials that the university just doesn't seem to have? Well, Interlibrary Loan is a free service that will help you track down those items. Library staff will search through libraries across the country to see if they can borrow a copy for you.
University of Houston-Downtown students, faculty, and staff are eligible to use Interlibrary Loan. To request items online through this service you can login to your interlibrary loan account by going to the ILL login page. First-time users will need to create an account for interlibrary loan.
Please keep in mind that since the item could be coming from anywhere in the country, the time it takes to get it could be a week or two. Also, the amount of time you get to keep the item is not determined by UHD library staff and is set by the other institution that sends it, so due dates could vary.
If you would like to know more about Interlibrary Loan or have questions you can check out the Interlibrary loan page or contact library staff by email LibraryLoan@uhd.edu or phone: 713-221-8187.
NO TEXTBOOKS! Students please note that you CANNOT request your textbooks via Interlibrary Loan. No exceptions. Sorry!
The library has created videos you can watch online that will walk you through using two of the library's most popular databases, Academic Search Complete, and LibSearch. You can access the two videos from the library home page, http://www.uhd.edu/library by selecting the link Database Video Tutorials under the Help section.
Faculty - These videos can also be linked to, or embed in a blackboard class (the code is provided on each video’s page).
