Research Help
Decker Library librarians are here for your research needs
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General Information
The Access Services staff are here to help with your account, reserves, interlibrary loans, and general questions
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MICA Archives and Special Collections
Direct inquiries to the Research Help Desk.
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Guides on How To Cite Your Work
Whether you're writing a paper or creating a work of art, everyone needs to cite their work. Below are links to formatting and style guides.
Academic Citation Resource Guide
This guide is a great place to start if you're unsure about which citation style to use.
APA (American Psychological Association) style is most commonly used to cite sources within the social sciences.
Chicago Manual of Style is commonly used by those in literature, history, and the arts. Note: Please log in with your MICA username and password to access the entire Chicago Manual of Style
MLA Formatting and Style Guide
MLA (Modern Language Association) style is most commonly used to write papers and cite sources within the liberal arts and humanities.
Hi there! Welcome to the Information Visualization Research guide. This guide is designed to help you get started with information visualization research, including where to go for datasets. This guide was designed by Jenny Ferretti and is currently maintained by Tannaz Motevalli. Please feel free to reach out to the liaison librarian Tannaz for any questions. Below is a great example of a visualization by the Museum of Modern Art: One-Way Ticket: Jacob Lawrence's Migration Series, Visualization the Great Migration.
Lynda.com is a leading online learning platform that helps anyone learn business, software, technology and creative skills to achieve personal and professional goals. Use your MICA login for access.
If you find materials held at another library, Decker Library could potentially request the item be given to us through interlibrary loan. The interlibrary loan service is done online, with most materials available in 1-2 weeks.
About Google Scholar Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: articles, theses, books, abstracts and court opinions, from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities and other web sites.
Integration with Decker Library
If you are logged into your MICA email, you will see results you have access to through our database subscriptions. These results are notes as "Available@Decker Library."