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It is based on Choosing and Using Sources by Ohio State University Libraries Teaching & Learning at https://ohiostate.pressbooks.pub/choosingsources/.
Includes also materials from:
Chapter 1: The Research Question
Wilfrid Laurier University Library Developing a Research Question
New Literacies Alliance Using the 5Ws to Develop a Research Question
Chapter 2: Types of Information Sources
Net Tutor OSUL Guided Tour of a Scholarly Journal Article licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International license.
Western University Grey Literature Tutorial licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International license.
Chapter 4: Searching the Library Catalogue & Databases
UCLA Library Finding Articles in Academic Databases licenced under Creative Commons Attribution Licence (reuse allowed)
Chapter 5: Evaluating Information and Information Sources
CILIP The CRAAP Test licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International license http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4
Cottrell, S. (2023) Critical thinking skills: effective analysis, argument and reflection, 4th ed., London: Bloomsbury. ©2023 Stella Cottrell
Evelyn & Howard Boroughs Library Popular vs Scholarly Sources licenced under Creative Commons Licence CC BY 3.0 DEED
Western Libraries Evaluating Sources is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0) License
University of Louisville Libraries Lateral Reading Created by Robert Detmering, Amber Willenborg, and Terri Holtze under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-Share Alike 4.0 International License.
Chapter 6: Academic Integrity
Caswell, M., Crowell, L., Drew, C., Goulet, C., Jacques, S., MacCallum, L., MacGillivray, K., Pottie, M., Rizwan, J. and Rodrigues, D. (2022) Academic integrity at Mount Saint Vincent University, Mount Saint Vincent University, available: https://caul-cbua.pressbooks.pub/acadintegrity/ [accessed: 11 Feb 2025]. This resource is available under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial–ShareAlike 4.0 licence.
International Center for Academic Integrity (ICAI) (2021) The fundamental values of academic integrity, 3rd ed., Delaware: ICAI, available: https://academicintegrity.org/aws/ICAI/asset_manager/get_file/911282?ver=1 [accessed: 11 Feb 2025]. This resource is available under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercialShareAlike 4.0 International licence.
Turnitin (2023) The plagiarism spectrum 2.0 [infographic], available: https://www.turnitin.com/infographics/the-plagiarism-spectrum [accessed 18 August 2024]. ©2023 Turnitin, LLC. All rights reserved.
Chapter 7: Citing & Referencing
All Aboard Citing & Referencing Module Link: https://www.allaboardhe.ie/AAlessons/referencing/story_html5.html?lms=1 released under a CC BY-NC 4.0 International licence and attributed to ‘All Aboard’.
Indian River State College Libraries Avoiding Plagiarism licenced under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence (reuse allowed)
Monash University Library (2015) Quick reference guide to Vancouver citing & referencing style, Monash University Library, available: https://guides.lib.monash.edu/ld.php?content_id=14570618 [accessed 13 Aug 2024]. ©Monash University Library
North Carolina State University Libraries Citation: A (Very) Brief Introduction was created by North Carolina State University Libraries . It is licenced under a Creative Commons Attribution, Non-Commerical, Share Alike Licence
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