What's in this Guide
Welcome to the Work Metabolism Guide
This guide is a collection of links to a great many resources of potential use to you in this course. These links are brought together to help you make efficient use of your valuable time generating your ideas, organizing your evidence, and effectively communicating your ideas and the evidence for and against the idea.
- Home: On this page will find information on the structure of the guide and where to find various kinds of information within this guide.
- Articles and Databases: On this page you will find links to journals and databases that will be useful in conducting your research for this class.
- DOIs: On this page you will find information about Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) as well as tools to help you find DOIs for articles that you are citing.
- Synthesizing Literature: On this page you will find resources to help you synthesize the findings from literature searches into a more generalized understanding.
- Style, Format, and Professional Resources: On this page you will find resources to assist you in academic writing, research, and citing sources.
- Mind Mapping: A page that will help you explore and organize your thoughts on your research topic through a technique called mind mapping or concept mapping.
- Peer Review: A page containing useful information about the scholarly publishing process, how to learn more about potential journals in which to publish your research, Open Access journals, and the peer review process to help you with the peer review assignment for this class.
If you are having difficulties accessing resources you can contact the Subject Librarian (information in the box to the right), the Milner Library Reference Desk (in the box to the right and down, and there is a library of Help Videos that can help you as well.
Connect with the Library from Off Campus
Here are some tips to help you access materials from home.
- Start at Milner Library's home page or any research guide.
- Consult the Research, Subject, and Course Guides to find recommended resources and research help.
- Use the Chat or Email function to access our virtual reference desk.
- Contact your Subject Librarian for help.
