This resource, Research Skills for Students, by Academic Skills Team, University of Galway Library, is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License except where otherwise noted.
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
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
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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