The next time you use an EBSCOhost database, create your own personal account by clicking "Sign in," and then "Create your own account." Be sure to keep track of the user name and password you select. After that, all you have to do to access anything you've saved to your personal folder is to sign in from any EBSCOhost database or from EagleSearch. To save citations to your EBSCOhost folder, click the title of the item and then the folder icon in that record.

Go to Ebook Central and the "sign-in" link in the upper right menu, and sign in using your ORU Network user name and password to set up and access your personal Ebook Central bookshelf.

In the upper, right-hand corner of the opens new windowProQuest dissertation database, click the icon of a person and "Sign into My Research." First-time users may create an account. Thereafter, sign in as an existing user.

To add a citation of an item in a database to the bibliography of your research project, click the "cite" link or icon provided, select the desired citation style, and copy and paste the citation into the document. Please note: all machine-generated citations need to be carefully proofread and corrected to conform to style manual guidelines.

To organize downloaded PDFs of journal articles, assign them a file name that includes the author's last name and the first few words of the article title, then save to one of a set of folders in the cloud and/or on your laptop that is arranged by the chapter or section of the research project to which it relates.