Information Skills

Information Skills

The links below are to external sites where advice is freely available which will help students to develop their information skills in conjunction with help and training from library staff. Please do remember to come and see your Academic Liaison Librarian or Customer Services staff in the library for more in-depth help, but these can act as a handy reference.

 http://www.open.ac.uk/safari/
This is a guided expedition through the information world. We hope that it will help you to feel more confident about finding, evaluating, and using information. It's quite detailed, and please be aware that not all areas are accessible to UW students.

http://iskillzone.uwe.ac.uk/RenderPages/RenderHomePage.aspx
Information Skills from the University of the West of England (not all material relevant for UW students)

http://www.academic-skills.soton.ac.uk/getstart.htm
A guide to library services produced by the University of Southampton (again, specific library references are not applicable to UW)

http://www.vts.intute.ac.uk/detective/
Interactive quiz designed to test your understanding of information on the Web, and how best to improve the way you use it. Designed by Intute.

http://www.lib.ed.ac.uk/howto/infoskills.shtml
Information Skills tutorial from the University of Edinburgh.