Online Library Resources
Research Help
Research Tools & Resources
A librarian can help you with your research! You can Ask a Librarian for help via email, phone, text, Zoom, and face-to-face. Coastline Librarians have "black-belts" in research and are happy to help!
Additional Resources:
- Planning Your Research Worksheet - Coastline College Library
- CoastlineLibrary on YouTube - Coastline Librarians answer lots of research questions on YouTube
- Evaluating Websites - Kathy Schrock's The 5 Ws of website evaluation
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Writing Center and Tutoring
Coastline has onsite and online resources to help "check your work"
- Coastline Writing Center - At the Writing Center, faculty help students strengthen their writing and communication skills by providing resources, workshops, and individual support for all kinds of assignments and projects that require writing for Coastline courses.
- Coastline Tutoring - Student Success Resource Center
- Coastline Online Tutoring in Canvas. Search for "Online Tutoring" in your Canvas Course. You can also find these resource in the Online Library Workshops in Canvas.
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APA Citation Help & Office 365
APA - American Psychological Association
APA is a style most commonly used in the social and behavioral sciences, health care, natural sciences, humanities, and more. It was created to "codify the many components of scientific writing to increase the ease of reading comprehension" (About APA Style).
- APA7 Citation Basics Worksheet (.docx) - Coastline College Library
- APA Style Guide - Golden West College Library
- APA Style Introduction -Purdue University Online Writing Lab (OWL)
- Coastline Writing Center - At the Writing Center, faculty help students strengthen their writing and communication skills by providing resources, workshops, and individual support for all kinds of assignments and projects that require writing for Coastline courses.
Enroll in APA Library Workshop
Other Resources
Planning Your Research Worksheet - Coastline College Library
Citation Generators - Google "Citation Generator" for free programs that help create citations.
- KnightCite - APA, Chicago, MLA
- Zoterobib
Office 365 for Students
FREE for Students - Office 365. This Microsoft office product has templates to format APA and MLA.
- To access Office 365 go to the Microsoft Online website.
- Enter your college-issued email address (e.g. jdoe1@student.cccd.edu) and password.
- For password assistance, please contact the Coast District IT Service Desk at 714.438.8111 or itservicedesk@cccd.edu
Coastline College Student Success & Resource Center
If you would like to have a tutor review your paper for MLA and/or APA style, please do the following:
- Go to “Online Tutoring” (which is NetTutor) which may be linked within your Canvas course page in the left navigation pane alongside other course links. If you do not see it, you can self-enroll in the Student Success & Resource Center Canvas shell. Click on the link on that page that says “Login Here: Online Tutoring”
- Once you are in the Canvas page, click on Online Tutoring, which is in the left navigation pane.
- When NetTutor opens, you will see some options. Click on “NetTutor Writing Center”
- Within the NetTutor Writing Center, you can choose to meet with a live tutor or you can submit a paper or a question. If you choose to drop off a paper, you can include comments to ask the tutor to review specific things such as MLA or APA citations/style.
- If you have questions or concerns about this process, please email success@coastline.edu.
Remember you can find citations in the Library Databases also!
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MLA Citation Help & Office 365
MLA - Modern Language
MLA style is most commonly used to cite sources within the language arts, cultural studies, and other humanities disciplines (MLA OWL).
- MLA9 Citation Basics Worksheet (.docx) - Coastline College Library
- MLA Style Guide - Golden West College Library
- MLA Style Introduction - Purdue University Online Writing Lab (OWL)
- Coastline Writing Center - At the Writing Center, faculty help students strengthen their writing and communication skills by providing resources, workshops, and individual support for all kinds of assignments and projects that require writing for Coastline courses.
Enroll in MLA Library Workshop
Other Resources
Planning Your Research Worksheet - Coastline College Library
Citation Generators - Google "Citation Generator" for free programs that help create citations.
- KnightCite - APA, Chicago, MLA
- Zoterobib
Office 365 for Students
FREE for Students - Office 365. This Microsoft office product has templates to format APA and MLA.
- To access Office 365 go to the Microsoft Online website.
- Enter your college-issued email address (e.g. jdoe1@student.cccd.edu) and password.
- For password assistance, please contact the Coast District IT Service Desk at 714.438.8111 or itservicedesk@cccd.edu
Coastline College Student Success & Resource Center
If you would like to have a tutor review your paper for MLA and/or APA style, please do the following:
- Go to “Online Tutoring” (which is NetTutor) which may be linked within your Canvas course page in the left navigation pane alongside other course links. If you do not see it, you can self-enroll in the Student Success & Resource Center Canvas shell. Click on the link on that page that says “Login Here: Online Tutoring”
- Once you are in the Canvas page, click on Online Tutoring, which is in the left navigation pane.
- When NetTutor opens, you will see some options. Click on “NetTutor Writing Center”
- Within the NetTutor Writing Center, you can choose to meet with a live tutor or you can submit a paper or a question. If you choose to drop off a paper, you can include comments to ask the tutor to review specific things such as MLA or APA citations/style.
- If you have questions or concerns about this process, please email success@coastline.edu.
Remember you can find citations in the Library Databases also!
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Find Articles, Resources, Etc.
Find Articles / Resources / Books & eBooks / etc.
The Coastline Library subscribes to eBooks & Databases that have thousands of peer-reviewed articles, scholarly journals, newspapers, and eBooks for Coastline students and staff. Find Library Databases organized by subject on the eBooks & Databases page. Each database has a video that shows you how to use that resource. Search the Library Catalog for all library content. Explore Google Scholar to find more articles and learn how to find Coastline resources on Google Scholar.
Coastline eBooks & Databases
Coastline Library Catalog
Need Help? Contact the Coastline Library. We can help you with your research. Visit the Coastline Library YouTube Channel. We answer lots of student questions on YouTube!
Libraries in Orange County for Coastline Students
Coastline students with a current student ID may use the general library collections (not textbooks) at the following Community College Libraries in Orange County:
- Cypress College Library
- Fullerton College Library
- Golden West College Library
- Orange Coast College Library
Students may also use the Library at Cal State Long Beach (CSULB) with a current student ID.
Orange County Public Library has 33 branch libraries across Orange County that students can use to study, check out books, use computers, print, and more!
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Plagiarism Help
Plagiarism Help
- Did you know that you can plagiarize accidentally?
- Did you know that you can plagiarize yourself?
- Are you familiar with Coastline College policies on plagiarism?
Take this Avoiding Plagiarism Library Workshop at Coastline! Click this link to Self-enroll in the CCCNB Library Workshops. The whole workshop should take about an hour to complete.
Coastline Writing Center - At the Writing Center, faculty help students strengthen their writing and communication skills by providing resources, workshops, and individual support for all kinds of assignments and projects that require writing for Coastline courses. The Writing Center is a good resource to help avoid plagiarism.
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Research Guides & Worksheets
- Planning Your Research Worksheet - Coastline College Library
- APA7 Citation Basics Worksheet (.docx) - Coastline College Library
- APA Style Guide - Golden West College Library
- MLA9 Citation Basics Worksheet (.docx) - Coastline College Library
- MLA Style Guide - Golden West College Library