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Library and information staff are always looking for new ideas, inspiration and techniques to engage with their research community and to facilitate the research process. Here are a few short, practical examples from all kinds of libraries around the world - small ideas, specific examples and tips which have worked for other people. 
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You have to be a pretty tenacious researcher to find any criticism about LibGuides, the practical and convenient tool that librarians use to create online guides to research. My search...
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Millions of dollars in government grants are misused for fake results.
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An animated video explaining the basics of research data. This video is recommended background material for students planning to attend a workshop on researc...
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Austin Community College Library Services
ACC Library Services is committed to making information literacy an integral part of a college education. As part of that effort, we have developed some web-based tutorials. (Tutorials with audio are indicated with headphones.)
Elizabeth E Charles's insight:
Covers: Choosing a Topic , Identifying Keywords , Academic Honesty , Evaluating Information
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JISC’s work supports all stages of the research lifecycle.
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The latest choice of the Peer-Reviewed Instructional Materials Online (PRIMO) Committee of the Instruction Section of ACRL for their Site of the Month is InfoRhode Tutorials. There is an interview with producer Jim Kinnie on the PRIMO website. "InfoRhode Tutorials is an online tutorial that explores the basics of college-level research. It consists of six modules that follow the research process: Start, Identify, Gather I, Gather II, Evaluate, and Cite.
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Generating new knowledge is a relatively straightforward concept compared with the more unknown territory of getting knowledge to those that might need it. To ensure knowledge is useful, relationsh...
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Dissertation examiners always check the methods chapter or methodological writings carefully. And the more the doctorate is seen as research training, the more important it will be for examiners to...
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It can be difficult to determine how much data is required for research analysis. Kerim Friedman compares the process to documentary film-making where they typically shoot sixty times the amount th...
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As social media and other new forms of media emerge as influential ways to communicate academic knowledge, David Beer argues academics may need to pay more attention to the politics of circulation ...
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This interactive tutorial is aimed at first year students or those wanting to improve their information retrieval and research skills. It shows you how to research your assignment by creating a research strategy and identifying and using sources of information. The tutorial contains quizzes and interactions and the user is given the opportunity to work through the content in a self paced manner.
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Digital research tools (science 2.0): research management, publication, citation management, collaborative working, data vizualisation, lab management...
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