HON: Honors College Program

This LibGuide is in support undergraduate research through the Honors College

Illustration from https://www.southalabama.edu/colleges/honors/.

Here is what you will find in this guide

College-Level Research - Research in college will require you to use specialized databases, understand your sources, choose your topics wisely, and possibly use new tools to help you organize all of it. 

Primary vs Secondary Resources - What is a primary source? Learn that and how reliable your resources are.  

Choosing a Topic - Learn some tips and tricks to get started and find a topic that you can be excited about researching.

Library Searching - Library searching does not work like a Google Search. Learn the difference here.

• Keywords - how do you choose keywords and find better keywords?
• Boolean Operators - a successful library/database search must use Boolean Operators correctly.

Database Searching - now that you know the basics of searching, find out how to put it together here.

• OneSearch - Check out information basic database searching using OneSearch.
• Google Scholar - how to use Google Scholar and how to connect it to USA Library to take full advantage of your access.

Citations - learn about citation types.

• Citation Mining - citation mining is using a resource to find more resources. These techniques will help you find past work, more current work, and related work.
• Zotero - What is Zotero? Why are you using it? How do you get your references in it?

Writing - need some help getting started?

• Annotated Bibliographies - what are they and how do they work?
• Literature Review Basics - learn what a literature review is and is not. Get some help getting started.
• Research Prospectus - learn more about what is expected here.
• How to Find Honors Theses

Help & More - Having trouble logging in off-campus? Wondering how to use Interlibrary Loan? Have a general question or an in-depth research question? This page will help to point you in the right direction.