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An interactive tutorial on how to reference books correctly. It begins with an example, and interactively draws the student through the stages of accessing the relevant information through to how to include the final citation in the bibliography. It concludes with a ‘test your knowledge’ set of activities. When you view this object note that the panel on the left generated by the repository can be dragged sideways to view the learning object full screen.

This tutorial reviews the common elements that all journal articles contain (abstract, methods, etc.) and what can be learned from each element. In addition, the tutorial distinguishes between scholarly journal articles and other publications. The Health Education Assets Library (HEAL) is a digital library that provides freely accessible digital teaching resources of the highest quality that meet the needs of today's health sciences educators and learners.

This is a Guardian article abut the JISC commissioned report: Information behaviour of the researcher of the future. UCL 2008 http://www.jisc.ac.uk/media/documents/programmes/reppres/gg_final_keynote_11012008.pdf

The University of Southampton guide to research has been composed by the University’s academic librarians and is a gateway to resources listed by academic subject.

A presentation by Debra Morris, Library to support students in understanding the need to use high quality and relevant literature sources in their academic work. The item includes a case study on Wikipedia.

This presentation was used early in semester 1 2010-11 to introduce History first year student to the library catalogue (Webcat) and a range of other library resources

This presentation covers all the key points of the session, including the definition of information literacy, its importance, key components, in-session exercises, and ethical considerations.

This lecture will discuss- • Finding and evaluating sources of information • Using information from the web • Creative Commons