Information Literacy

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Rank the sources: In class activity

Students are provided with four abstracts from the Academic Search Premier database, and prompted to read the abstracts, consider the audience, the date, and then rank these in order of usefulness for an essay. Three sets of results lists given.

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In-class activities

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Evaluating

Reading a Search Results Page from a Library Database

Library databases are great places to find published articles, but the results pages can be confusing. This video gives some tips about how to find useful results. NOTE: This video is available in Spanish. See "Cómo leer una página de resultados de búsqueda de una base de datos de la biblioteca" below.

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Video

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Reading Search Results from a Library Database (Handout Version)

Questions to ask to determine whether an article in a library database is a good fit for your assignment.

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Handouts

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Evaluating

Research 101: Credibility is contextual

This video discusses the many factors of evaluating the credibility of a source including the author, audience and purpose.

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Video

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Getting started

Science Direct (How to use)

How to use Science Direct, which provides full text articles for peer-reviewed life sciences, Health Science, physical sciences, and engineering journals with citation information for thousands more.

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Handouts

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Finding

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