Information sources - Introduction

During your studies you will need to research information for your papers and other assignments. Once you graduate you will most likely continue to research to make informed decisions in your job. The skills you have and continue to develop will make the process of finding information for your assignments, your work and your life much easier.

The combined resources of your library and the Internet create an almost endless amount of information available to you. With all of these choices, where do you find the answers?

This module will focus on the different sources of information, where to find these sources, and how to choose the best ones for your research.

After completing this section, you should be able to: identify a variety of information sources choose appropriate finding aids to retrieve information recognize that appropriate sources of information will change depending on your needs distinguish between professional and scholarly periodicals identify trustworthy information sources know what you can expect to find in a bibliographic database list reasons to use a bibliographic database

Part of this module is based on materials from TILT. TILT is an educational Web site designed by the The University of Texas System Digital Library as an introduction to research sources and skills.

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