Choose Your Own Research Adventure: A do-it-yourself guide to using the library, geared towards undergraduate students who want to do research on their own
All Guides
A
- Academic Integrity
- Academic Journals vs. Popular Magazines
- Accessing Carleton building information
- Accounting
- Add results beyond Carleton + Omni Libraries' collection
- Additional Library Information
- Aerial Image with Scale
- AFRI 1001
- AFRI 2005
- AFRI 3001 - Globalization and Popular Culture in Africa
- AFRI 3004 - The African City
- AFRI 5000
- African Studies
- ALDS 3205
- ALDS MA & PhD students
- American Government & Politics
- American History
- American Sign Language
- ANTH 3225 Vivian Solana Moreno
- Anthropology ANTH
- AoM
- APA
- Applied linguistics and discourse studies
- Appropriate Sources to Use
- ArcGIS Desktop FAQ
- ArcGIS FAQ
- Archaeology
- Architecture
- Are there any Dumb Questions?
- Are there services for students with disabilities?
- Art and Architectural History
- Articles
- Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning COMP
- Arts Management
- Asian Studies
- Avoid Plagiarism
B
- Balkan Region
- Beyond 20/20: How to use Beyond 20/20
- BIOC 4009
- Biochemistry
- BIOL 2301
- BIOL 2301 - SWOT
- BIOL 3301
- BIOL 3305
- BIOL 3601
- BIOL 4301
- BIOL 4301 - SWOT
- BIOL 4318
- BIOL 4905
- BIOL 5502
- Biology
- BIOM 5101
- Biomedical Engineering
- Biotechnology
- BIT 2002
- Black History in Canada
- Bloomberg Guides
- Book Arts
- Books
- British History
- BUSI 1800
- BUSI 2101
- BUSI 2204
- BUSI 2208
- BUSI 2703
- BUSI 2800
- BUSI 3209
- BUSI 3704
- BUSI 4208
- BUSI 4219
- BUSI 4500
- BUSI 4609
- BUSI 4707
- BUSI 4717
- BUSI 4902
- BUSI 6902
- BUSI Graduate Research Methods
- BUSI MBA
- BUSI PhD
- Business
C
- CAD Formats
- Call Number System - Library of Congress
- Campus or General Information
- Can I use Wikipedia?
- Canadian Foreign Policy
- Canadian Government Information and Statistics
- Canadian Government Policy Cycle
- Canadian History
- Canadian Parliamentary Publications: Pre-Confederation
- Canadian Studies
- Canadian Studies for graduate students
- CANSIM: Using CANSIM
- Carleton University Dataverse Collection - Help Guide
- CCDP
- Census of Canada: Choosing Census Geography
- Census of Canada: Downloading Canadian Census Analyser Data
- Census of Canada: Joining Census Data to Boundary Shapefiles in ArcGIS Pro
- Census of Canada: Joining Census or NHS Data to Boundary Shapefiles
- Chemistry
- Chicago
- Child Labour and Children's Rights
- Childhood and Youth Studies
- Childhood and Youth Studies: Honours research students
- Chinese Language
- Choose your own Research Adventure!
- Choosing an Essay Topic
- Citation Management
- Cited Reference Searching
- Citing Data and Statistics
- Citing data, statistics, maps and government information
- Citing Geospatial Data and Software
- Citing Government Information
- Citing Maps
- Citing or using sources
- Citing Your Sources
- Citizen Science
- Civil Engineering
- Classification Systems (Statistical Nomenclatures)
- CLCV 2902A History of Ancient Greece I
- Climate Change
- Climate GIS Data and Maps
- Coding for Qualitative Research
- CODOC Call Numbers
- Cognitive Science
- Communication and Media Studies
- Communications Engineering SYSC
- Company & Industry Data & Reports
- Computer Science COMP
- COMS 1101
- COMS 2004/3002
- COMS 2601
- COMS 3002B
- COMS 3108
- COMS 4404
- COMS 4412A
- COMS 4505
- COMS GRAD
- Conducting a Literature Review
- Configure Google Scholar to Access Articles through Omni
- Consumer Information
- Converting Shapefiles to AutoCAD drawing files
- Copyright and faculty-owned materials
- Copyright and posting to Brightspace
- Copyright Definitions and FAQ
- Copyright when teaching a virtual class
- Copyright when teaching in a physical classroom
- Country Information
- COVID-19
- Covidence
- CRCJ 3001
- CRCJ 3002
- Creating an Ottawa site plan in ArcGIS Pro
- Creating Contours using ASTER DEM and Global Mapper
- Criminology and Criminal Justice
- Critical Review
- CSE Citation Style
- CSE Citation Style: In-Text Citations
- CSE Citation Style: Reference List: Citation-Sequence and Citation-Name
- CSE Citation Style: Reference List: Name-Year
- Cultural Mediations
- Culture, Government and the Arts: Public Policy Resources
D
- Data Science COMP
- Data Services: Frequently Asked Questions
- Data Visualization
- Database Search Strategies
- Determining Peer Review with Ulrichsweb
- Digital Elevation Model (DEM) Formats
- Digital Humanities
- Diplomatic History: Official Sources
- Disability Studies
- DLI Training Repository
- Do I Need to Pay for an Article?
- Downloading ebooks to read with Adobe Digital Editions
- Downloading ebooks to read with Bluefire Reader app on Apple (iOS) devices
E
- Earth Sciences
- ECON 3220
- ECON 3920
- ECON 4905
- ECON CUES
- ECON M.A.
- Economic Indicators
- Economics
- Education
- Elections
- Electronics Engineering ELEC
- Engineering (General)
- Engineering Physics ELEC
- ENGL 1009A Literature in Global Context
- ENGL 1010A/B: Writing Essays About Literature
- ENGL 2926 - African Literature
- ENGL 2937A South Asian Literature II
- ENGL 3500A Literatures and Cultures 1700-1900
- English as a Second Language ESLA
- English Language and Literature
- ENSC 1500 2022
- ENST 2001A Sustainable Futures: Environmental Challenges and Solutions
- ENST 3900 Field Camp
- Entrepreneurship
- Environmental Engineering
- Environmental Science
- Environmental Studies
- ERTH 2314
- ERTH 4820A
- ESLA
- European History - Western
- European Union
- European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies
- EURR 1001
- Evaluating sources: Academic, popular, news, and social media articles
- Evaluating sources: Use the ACT UP test
- Evaluating sources: Use the CRAAP test
- Excel
F
- Film Studies
- Finance
- Find businesses and services using DMTI Enhanced Points of Interest
- Find More From What You Have
- Find More From What You Have : Bibliography/References
- Find More From What You Have: Citation Tools in OMNI
- Find More From What You Have: Subject Headings
- Find sources for my research
- Finding Ethnographies ANTH
- Finding Journal Articles
- Finding Print, Online and Interactive Maps
- Finding Videos
- First-Year Students: Library Basics
- Food Science and Nutrition
- Foreign & International Law
- Foreign Direct Investment
- Found too little or too much
- FREN 3050
- French Language
- French Literature
- FYSM 1004A
- FYSM 1004C
- FYSM 1004D
- FYSM 1004E
- FYSM 1004G
- FYSM 1101 Location is Everything
- FYSM 1107 Social Justice in the city
- FYSM 1108 Sustainable Environments
- FYSM 1210
- FYSM 1217A
- FYSM 1217B
- FYSM 1405A Global History of Forced Migration
- FYSM 1405C The long civil rights movement
- FYSM 1405D World War II
- FYSM 1506A Beatriz Juarez-Rodriguez
- FYSM 1506B Xiaobei Chen
- FYSM 1611 D Feminism is for everybody
G
- Games: Studies and Development
- Gender Studies
- Generate Quick Citations
- Geocoding: from addresses to geographic coordinates (latitude & longitude)
- GEOG 1020A People, Places and Environments
- GEOG 1023 Introduction to Cities and Urbanization
- GEOG 2200 Global Connections
- GEOG 2300A Space, Place and Culture
- GEOG 3023 Cities in a Global World
- GEOG 3105 Climate and Atmospheric Change
- GEOG 4906/09 Honours Research Project or Thesis
- GEOG 5000 Approaches to Geographical Inquiry
- GEOG 5905 Masters Research Workshop
- Geography
- Geography for Graduate Studies
- Geology Maps and GIS Data
- Georeferencing and digitizing scanned maps or aerial images in Google Earth
- German History
- German Language
- Getting started with ebook and audiobook collections
- Getting Started with Online & Interactive Maps
- GINS 1000 - Introduction to Global and International History
- GINS 1010 - International Law and Politics
- GINS 1020 Ethnography, Globalisation and Culture
- GINS 2000 - Ethics and Globalization
- GINS 3010 - Introduction to Global and International Theory
- GIS
- GIS File Formats
- GIS Help
- GIS Help: Architecture Students
- GIS Help: Civil Engineering
- GIS Help: I have no idea what I'm doing
- GIS Help: I need to find data
- GIS Help: Mapping the Census of Canada
- GIS Help: Specific software/file formats
- GIS Help: Starting from Scratch
- GIS software
- GIS videos
- GIS: What is GIS?
- Gladue reports
- Global & International Studies
- Global Mapper
- Good sources for my research
- Government Information: United Kingdom
- Greek and Roman Studies
- Grey Literature
H
- Health
- Health Care: Public Policy and Statistics
- Help with a Specific Citation
- HIST 1301B Conflict and Change in Early Canadian History
- HIST 1302A Rethinking Modern Canadian History
- HIST 1707A World History
- HIST 2506A Introduction to Women's and Gender History
- HIST 2707A Modern Africa
- HIST 2809A The Historian's Craft
- HIST 2913 History of Oil
- HIST 3111A History of Humanitarian Aid
- HIST 3116A History of Disability
- HIST 3301A Quebec since 1800
- HIST 3510 Indigenous Peoples of Canada
- HIST 4805A Climate History
- HIST 4806A Food History
- HIST 5315F Extraction of Natural Resources in Canada
- History
- History for Graduate Students
- History of Sexuality
- HLTH 1002
- HLTH 2001
- HLTH 2003
- HLTH 4909
- HLTH 5100
- HLTH 5350
- Holocaust Education
- How Do I Know If This Article is Peer Reviewed or Scholary
- How to search for GIS data
- How-To: Data Services
- Human Computer Interaction COMP
- Human Rights
- Humanitarian Relief and Refugees
- HUMS 4500
I
- I am looking for a Specific Article
- I am looking for a specific book
- I am looking for peer-reviewed articles
- I am looking for Statistics
- I am looking for textbook for my class
- I do not know where to find a call number
- I need company and industry data and reports
- I need help accessing Library Services
- I need help creating a thesis statement
- I need help finding theses and dissertations
- I need help in my subject area
- I need help in my subject area
- I need help narrowing my topic
- I need help searching
- I need help turning my topic into a keyword search
- I need help understanding my academic/peer-reviewed articles
- I need help with GIS
- I need help writing
- I need news articles
- I need to select terms or keywords to search with
- I want to browse journals by subject
- I want to browse print books in the library on my topic
- I want to know about Citation Chaining
- IBUS 5701N
- IBUS 5712
- IEEE Citation Style
- Image Formats
- Images: Copyright, Licenses and Fair Dealing
- INAF 5254
- INAF 5705
- INAF 5710
- Indigenous & First Nations Cartographic Resources
- Indigenous languages
- Indigenous Policy & Administration
- Indigenous Studies
- Indigenous Studies GIS resources
- Industrial & Labour Relations
- Industrial Design
- Information Technology
- Integrating Sources into my Paper
- International Affairs
- International Business
- International Organizations
- IPIS 5101
- Is this book scholarly?
- Islamic Studies
- Italian Language
- Items in Other Languages
J
L
M
- MAB 1
- Make a basemap for anywhere in Canada
- Making an online map with Google My Maps
- Marketing
- Mathematics and Statistics
- Measuring your Research Impact
- Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
- Medieval History
- Mendeley Reference Manager
- Migration and Diaspora Studies
- MKTG 5200
- MLA
- Modeling and Simulation Technology SYSC
- Music
N
O
- ODESI: How to use <odesi>
- Off-Campus Database Access: Common Problems
- Off-Campus Login Help
- Omni Search Tips
- Online Maps by Municipality/City
- Open Access (OA) Publications
- Open Journal Hosting (OJS) - Documentation
- Organizational Behaviour & Management
- Other Citation Guides
- Other Library Catalogues
- Ottawa Resource Collection (OTTR) Guide
P
- PADM 1501
- PADM 5121
- PADM 5125
- PADM 5224
- PADM PhD
- PAPM 1001
- PAPM 3000
- Patents, Standards, and Trademarks
- Philanthropy & Nonprofit Leadership (PANL)
- Philosophy
- Physics
- Political Economy
- Political Management
- Political Science
- Pornography
- Possible Topics
- Postal Code Conversion Files (PCCF)
- Primary Sources
- Primary, Secondary, and Tertiary Sources
- Print or Non-Internet Sources
- Printing, login or access issues
- Privacy, Freedom of Information, and Access to Information
- PSCI 1100
- PSCI 1200
- PSCI 2002
- PSCI 2101
- PSCI 2102
- PSCI 2401
- PSCI 2701
- PSCI 5807
- PSYC 2003
- PSYC 2400T
- PSYC 2600
- PSYC 3100A
- PSYC 3400
- PSYC 3500A
- PSYC 3805A
- PSYC 4909
- Psychology
- Psychology for Graduate Students
- Public Affairs & Policy Management
- Public Finance: Budgets, Expenditures, Monetary Policy and Audits
- Public History
- Public Opinion Polls
- Public Policy & Administration
- Publication Cycle
- Publishing in Open Access
- Pubmed Guide
Q
S
- SAS Help
- Science and Technology: Public Policy and Statistics
- Scientific Writing Tips
- Search for Journal Permissions
- Searching News Databases
- Sexuality Studies
- Shapefiles Help Guide
- Significant Work in my Field
- Site Plan Resources for Architects
- SOCI 2040 Phillip Primeau
- SOCI 6002 Xiaobei Chen
- Social Enterprise
- Social Media
- Social Policy
- Social Protocol and Etiquette
- Social Surveys
- Social Work
- Social Work for graduate students
- Sociology SOCI
- Software Engineering COMP/SYSC
- Soil Maps & GIS Data
- South Asian and Indian History
- SOWK 1001 and 1002
- SOWK 2001: Structural Analysis
- SOWK 2100 - The Political Economy of the Social Welfare
- SOWK 2203C
- SOWK 3001
- SOWK 5012 - Social Work Research Foundations
- SOWK 6202
- Spanish Language
- SPSS Hints and Tips
- Start your research / Pick a Topic
- Stata Learning Resources
- Statistics Canada - Finding Data
- STGY 5900/5903
- Surveys: Which survey is right for you?
- Sustainable and Renewable Energy (for Public Policy and Statistics)
- Sustainable and Renewable Energy (Stream A: Smart Technologies for Power Generation and Distribution) ELEC
- Sustainable and Renewable Energy (Stream B: Efficient Energy Generation and Conversion)
- SYSC 4201
- Systematic Reviews and other Knowledge Syntheses
- Systems and Computer Engineering SYSC
T
- Taxation
- Teaching Tips for Grad Student TA's
- Technology Innovation Management TIMG
- Telecommunications: Public Policy and Statistics
- These do not describe my need
- Think Tanks
- TIM5103
- Trade Data and Statistics
- Trade: Public Policy and Statistics
- Transportation: Public Policy and Statistics
- Turn on Extensions in ArcGIS Pro
U
W
- Water Resources
- What are Primary sources?
- What are transcription services?
- What does Peer-Review mean?
- What is Omni?
- What is the New Sun Joy Maclaren Adaptive Technology Centre?
- What Types of Sources I Need
- Where to Search
- Which Items Are Relevant to My Topic
- Why should I use library databases and not the Internet/Google
- Women's and Gender Studies
- Women's and Gender Studies for graduate students
- Working with LiDAR
- Working with OpenStreetMap
- World War I - The Great War
- Write a Book Review
- Writing an Annotated Bibliography
- Writing an Annotated Bibliography Video
- Writing an Outline for your essay
- Writing for Publication
- Writing for Scholarly Journals
