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We answer a lot of your questions “over 30,000 last year alone. Students especially like to use Instant Messenger to get quick answers. Did you know you can IM us and get help from 8 a.m. until midnight? We can help you figure out how to get articles, how to meet the goals of your assignment, or how to request a bestseller on a Kindle.

Here are some of the questions we encounter all the time:

I'm supposed to get three peer-reviewed articles on my topic “and I don't really know what that means. 

How do I cite this web site? 

I clicked on the FindText button, but I still don't get to the article. Why's that? 

Here are some recent hardballs:

I need to access the various GIS layers on the NC Art Museum property ¦ including building footprints, topography, vegetation, paths, roadways, water, utilities, floodplain, soil type ¦ 

I'm trying to find a way to set up an automated feed of science and technology news from Norway “in English “for media and peer reviewed research ¦ 

I need a business or economics data set with 50 observations, 6 variables “1 independent and 4 dependent... 

And here are three favorites from the last few months:

"I'm looking for stuff on the history of the early piracy laws circa 1600s."

I need articles on cats as an invasive species, in the U.S. 

How do I find the economic impact of replacing the tobacco industry with hemp agriculture in North Carolina? 

So go ahead, Ask Us !