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- Information literacy tutorials
- Critical information literacy tutorials
- Tutorials on specific topics
Information literacy tutorials
Use these tutorials for getting started with library research.
To get a certificate for each tutorial that you complete, self-register for Library Tutorials in D2L.
How do I evaluate online information?
Learn new strategies for evaluating and verifying unfamiliar online resources.
How do I give credit to the ideas of others?
Learn when and how to best give credit to the work of others.
Popular vs scholarly sources
Learn to tell the difference between popular and scholarly articles.
Mind mapping for focusing your topic
Use mind mapping to focus your topic and generate keywords for searching.
Accessing scholarly journals from off-campus
How to access scholarly articles from off-campus.
Critical information literacy tutorials
These tutorials are designed to help graduate students understand the more nuanced aspects of engaging with information as creators and consumers.
The complexity of searching
Searching is more complex than simply finding appropriate keywords.
How can we envision searching as iterative and exploratory to navigate the problematic nature of these influences?
The impact of subject headings
Libraries are organized around the Library of Congress Subject Headings, which although they are improving, use holdovers of out-of-date or even in some cases, offensive or discriminatory terms. How does this affect a researcher’s process and outcomes?
The importance of citational justice
Who and how we cite has implications on how truth is defined in various disciplines and can further marginalize those already less included in dominant discourse. How do we employ citational practices to enact citational justice?
The influence of source formats
Although scholarly and popular resources have different uses it does not mean they are mutually exclusive or exist as binary. How do we engender a more holistic perspective on sources to think of them as on a spectrum?
Tutorials on specific topics
Tutorials designed for specific courses or programs
- Locating authoritative resources (for researching diseases)
- Responsible literature searching (also in Edge Learning)
- Social research instruments for public health
- Using PubMed