Information Literacy Teaching Materials

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One Perfect Source?

Helps students think about how to refine a topic when they can't find any information on it. Highlights the idea that it may be impossible to find an all-in-one source that addresses a topic perfectly and the need to find a different approach.

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Peer Review in 3 Minutes

How do articles get peer reviewed? What role does peer review play in scholarly research and publication? This video will explain.

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Picking Your Topic IS Research!

Discusses the idea of adjusting a research topic as an integral part of the research process.

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Primary vs. Secondary Sources

This video discusses the difference between primary and secondary sources with examples from the Minnesota Historical Society's collections.

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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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