Photography: Home
Visual and Media Arts
Useful resources
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Citing Sourcesstyle guides & examples for reference lists (aka bibliographies).
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Knowledge Markethelp with research, writing, presentations, and data
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Resource MarketGuides, definitions of academic jargon, and helpful links created by Knowledge Market consultants
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Government Resourcesdata, census, info about federal, state, & local government, & cool stuff
Department Links
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Photography Majorinfo from the Department of Visual & Media Arts
Library Basics
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Databases, journals, & articlesVideo defines each and explains how they fit together
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Resource MarketThe Resource Market has guide sheets, definitions of academic jargon, and helpful links created by Knowledge Market consultants. Use the search bar or browse using the buttons.
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Building a Search StrategyVideo explains how to develop a search strategy before using the catalog or databases. These concepts are universal and apply to any database, or search engine.
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How to Find a BookThis video walks you through the process of searching for a book and identifying its location.
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Requesting Books, Journals in Print Form, and DVDs
While many articles & ebooks are online, some are in the robotic book retrieval system (official name = Automated Storage Retrieval System or ASRS) behind the Service Desk on the 1st floor.
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Practice Good Information Hygiene: Sanitize before You Share4 quick and easy steps to help stop the spread of COVID-19 misinformation: pause, fact check, search, examine original source. From the News Literacy Project
Welcome!
This guide's purpose is to provide resources for students doing research in photography. For additional resources, see the Art & Art History Subject Guide 
About articles: types, parts, publication process, evaluating
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Picking Your Topic IS Research
A video on the process of picking and refining a topic, from the North Carolina State University Libraries.
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From Idea To Library (article creation & publication process)What is an article vs a journal?
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Academic Research & Publishing Processby Kathryn Everson: her hand-drawn images show the research, submitting, review, and revision processes that apply to all types of research, not just scientific!
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Types of Publications
Are your information sources scholarly, peer-reviewed, academic, trade, popular? Definitions and examples of the differences. -
Evaluating Information by Fact CheckingDesigned for Communication Studies students, this tutorial will have you find a source of information in Communication Source database, refine your keywords, and evaluate the source.
The guide is live and you can click on any of the tabs and links.
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How to evaluate information
Infographic gives critical thinking guidelines from the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA)
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One Perfect Source?
Your topic seemed so great! So why can't you find any information on it? If you're looking for an all-in-one source that addresses your topic perfectly, you might need a different approach.
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Anatomy of a Scholarly ArticleA guide on how to identify scholarly articles & their parts
NCSU Libraries. Shared under the Creative Commons Attribution - Noncommercial - Share Alike 3.0 United States License. Contact the author: andreas_orphanides@ncsu.edu
Subject Guide
Amber Dierking
Contact:
240 Mary Idema Pew Library
dierkina@gvsu.edu
dierkina@gvsu.edu
Subjects:Art & Design, Classics, Film & Video, French, German, Modern Languages, Philosophy, Photography
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- Last Updated: Jan 22, 2021 9:49 AM
- URL: https://libguides.gvsu.edu/photography
