Research Tools
- Research Process - IRIS TutorialExplore information types
- Research 101 University of Washington
Based on the new Threshold Concepts the provides videos and quizzes and sample exercises.
- What are Databases and Why You Need to Use Them.(Video) from Yavapai College.
- How to Research. Claremont CollegesGood basic information on how to formulate and narrow a research topic
- Citing Sources UCLA(Tutorial)
- A Roadmap for Assessing Student Learning using the New Framework for Information Literacy for Higher EducationA pre-print version of the article that appeared in The Journal of Academic Librarianship (2014)
Tools - Narrowing a Topic
Handouts assignments
- Identifying Periodical Types.Identify a publication as popular, trade or scholarly
- ICYouSee -Exercises on critical thinking about Web resources.
Research Skills Our Students Need to Develop
- Recycling C.R.A.P.: Reframing a Popular Research Mnemonic for Library InstructionLibrarians at Villanova University reworked the popular CRAP mnemonic used for source evaluation (Currency, Reliability, Authority, Purpose) to describe the 2015 ACRL Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education: Conversation, Revision, Authority & Property.
Videos
Indentifying and using primary and secondary sources. 3:29 min.