Online Research Resources & Tools
Noodletools
Student research platform with MLA, APA and Chicago/Turabian bibliographies, notecards, outlining. NoodleTools gives students a systematic but flexible framework for navigating the tangled web of research. Students develop expert critical-thinking skills, gain confidence, and replace patchwriting and plagiarism with synthesis. From a novice’s research question to a graduate student’s thesis, the three levels of NoodleTools provide a mental model for research and a common language across faculty and disciplines. We are educators, citation specialists, primary source authorities, and academic researchers. That expertise is baked into our platform design and services.
eBrary
eBrary is an online digital library of full texts of over 100,000 scholarly e-books.[1]It is available at many academic libraries and provides a set of online database collections that combine scholarly books from over 435 academic, trade, and professional publishers. It also includes sheet music (9,000 titles) and government documents. Additionally, ebrary offers a service called "DASH!" for customers to distribute their own PDF content online.