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New! Get all your Information Skills etutorials in one place

 Develop your skills, make the most of library resources and find the information you need quickly. Complete our online tutorials - try a video, presentation, tutorial, infograph or quiz. 

We have re-organised our etutorials. You can now find all the tutorials you need to develop your information skills in one place – the Information Skills eTutorials page. Organised into 12 sections you’ll know exactly where to start: 


1. What are information skills? 

What are information skills, why do you need them and have you got them? Complete the tutorials here to find out. 


2. How can the library help? 

Find out about the library facilities, services and resources and how we can support your studies, work and professional development. 


3. Introduction to literature searching 

Get started with literature searching. Learn about the steps you need to follow and create your own literature search plan. 


4. Analyse your question 

You need to know what you are looking for – complete the tutorials here for help to breakdown your question. 


5. Search skills 

Have you got the skills to search effectively? Do you know your wildcard from your truncation, your boolean operator from your thesaurus term? Complete our tutorials to learn how to search confidently. 


6. Resources 

Make sure you look in the right place for the right information. Learn how to use key healthcare-based resources. 


7. Evaluate information 

Have you selected good quality resources? Complete our tutorials and learn how to evaluate them. 


8. Using information 

You need to use the information you find ethically. Find out more about referencing and plagiarism from our tutorials. 


9. Communicating 

You’ll need to share the work you complete, whether it is an assignment, project or piece of research. Try some of the options presented in this section. 


10. Managing information 

Need to stay up-to-date with new information being released? How will you manage that? Take a look at our current awareness tutorials for hints and tips. 


11. More training 

Want to delve deeper or need a little extra support? We’ve more options for you to consider. 


12. More help 

If you need more help, use the options available here. 


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