Getting started with research in the library:

Library Anxiety-- the cure!

How to start your research

How long will it take to do research?

What kind of assignment is it?

Choosing a topic

Finding Books

Finding Articles |  What's a journal? What's a magazine?  |  Some examples of indexes

Some sources for speeches and basic papers

Citing your sources

Search Strategies 

Searching the Internet

Evaluation of Internet sources

Writing help (Paradigm Online Writing Assistant, by Chuck Gilford)

Metaphors for research: what's yours?

IPL's look at research papers-- lots of detail.