Over the past couple of years, we have been working to create a suite of tutorials to help our users search for good quality academic resources and literature effectively. Our latest two tutorials have recently gone live.
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We’ve posted previously about the suite of online tutorials we have been developing. There are now 12 of these that are live, covering a range of different topics:
- Introduction to dissertation research
- Catalogue and discover
- Basic literature searching
- Bibliographic databases
- Accessing full text online
- Referencing
- Your reading list and beyond
- The Information Cycle
- Plagiarism and copyright in the academic context
- Using archives and special collections in your research
- Research in museums and galleries
- Palaeography
Creating a tutorial
Over the course of the last couple of months I have been working the Durham Centre for Academic Development (DCAD) to produce an interactive online tutorial titled Your Reading List and Beyond.
This tutorial is part of ‘phase 2’ or our overall tutorial programme. Phase 1 was designed, constructed and delivered in 2020 and consists of 6 tutorials which are available individually, whilst also designed to fit together to support the needs of dissertation students, whilst been available to all as standalone tutorials.
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