Services
Library Support
The Library offers support with researching assignments, finding academic sources, referencing correctly, and skills workshops to build your research confidence.
Writing Support
Support is here to help you with academic writing, from getting started to structuring and referencing your work.
Web Links
Systematic Review: This comprehensive resource will guide you in undertaking a Systamatic Review.
Subject Guides: Use this guide to narrow your research by your faculty of study, making it easier to find relevant resources.
Searching for Research: This page takes you through the library’s collections of research resources.
How to read a scholarly article: Key reading strategies: This guide provides an overview of the key components of scholarly articles, designed to help you more easily read and understand research articles.
Critically Evaluating Journal Papers -The ABCs of Critical Thinking!: Watching out for unreliable sources in the course of your research involves an element of critical thinking. This guide contains lots of tips for critically evaluating journal papers.
Apps and Technology Tools
Assistive Technology Linktree: Explore a collection of assistive technology tools to enhance writing accessibility. This resource includes tools for voice typing, dictation, and writing assistance across various platforms such as Microsoft Word, Google Docs, Mobile apps and browser extensions.
Trello: This tool can help you manage your research assignments by organising tasks, deadlines, and resources into visual boards and lists, making it easy to track progress and stay on top of each phase of the project.
Microsoft OneNote: This tool can help you with research assignments by providing a centralised space to organise notes, gather research materials, and create to-do lists. It allows for easy categorisation with notebooks, sections, and pages, and supports multimedia content, enabling you to integrate text, images, links, and even handwritten notes, all in one place.
Evernote: This tool can help you with research assignments by providing a versatile platform to organise notes, store research materials, and create to-do lists. It allows you to capture and save web pages, PDFs, images, and handwritten notes, all of which can be easily tagged, searched, and synced across devices for seamless access and organisation.
Downloads/Work Sheets/Tools
CRAAP Test: is a tool used to evaluate the reliability and credibility of information sources. It stands for Currency, Relevance, Authority, Accuracy, and Purpose. This worksheet presents a list of questions designed to help you evaluate the information you find (Meriam Library’s at California State University).
Journal Article Notetaking Template: This worksheet is designed to help you take detailed notes and understand essential content in journal articles.
Study Skills Worksheets: This page offers downloadable worksheets and interactive PDFs on essential academic skills, including reading and writing study techniques, time management, test-taking, motivation, and stress management (The Learning Corner at Oregon State University).
Videos
Check out this YouTube channel, for lots of helpful videos, such as finding information for your research, search concepts and databases, and advanced searching strategies.
Western Libraries Tutorials: Evaluating Sources
Western Libraries Tutorials: How to Read a Scholarly Article