Providing resources, training, advice and guidance to the education sector since 2002 to help address growing concerns about plagiarism, whilst promoting appropriate use of electronic sources of information. Working with a wide range of partners including The Higher Education Academy, JCQ, JISC, Ofqual and all UK unitary awarding bodies, along with schools, colleges and universities.

S.O.S. for Information Literacy is a dynamic web-based multimedia resource that includes peer-reviewed lesson plans, handouts, presentations, videos and other resources to enhance the teaching of information literacy (K-16).

Edited by Kristin Fontichiaro. Foreword by Jeffrey MacKie-Mason. A collection of essays on the topic of information and digital literacy from multiple perspectives. Also available at http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/115254

PaperPort Notes is a digital note taking tool for the iPad that is transforming the way people create and share information. Now you can combine documents, web content, audio, typed text as well as hand written notes into a single document that you can easily organize and share with anyone.

Plagiarism is the misrepresentation of authorship. Typically, words and ideas conceived by one person are attributed to another person. Open Source software WCopyfind download too...

Exploratree is a free web resource where teachers and students can access a library of ready-made interactive thinking guides, print them, edit them or make their own. Thinking guides can support independent and group research projects with frameworks for thinking, planning and enquiry.

Harvard Referencing Generator

WIKINDX is a free bibliographic and quotations/notes management and article authoring system designed either for single use (on a variety of operating systems) or multi-user collaborative use across the internet. Cheers Pat!

Although written by Library staff at Anglia Ruskin to support students' information skills here, the Guide is frequently cited as a valuable source on the Internet. If you wish to re-use the Guide you may do so under the terms of the Creative Commons licence as long as your use is restricted to non-commercial purposes and the source is acknowledged.

"Developing good academic practices" resource is intended to help you develop good academic practices in your studies, and when producing assignments and completing assessments. Although designed as a course to work through, the resource can also be used to dip in and out of, if you feel you need to improve your skills in a particular area.

Online course which aims to help with the range of writing tasks that students will experience on the veterinary nursing programme.

Restructured National Information Literacy Framework (Scotland) now available as a weblog with exemplars of good practice / case studies added

Website intended to help you design, carry out and write up a social science research project. It will be particularly helpful if you are expected to conduct a piece of small scale research for your university or college course, as it is full of practical advice and suggestions.

Primarily aimed at on-campus students, has plenty of open access resources of use to any researcher or student needing advice and guidance on their academic writing style.

Plagiarism tracker & checker.Track plagiarism by pasting your original text here

This wiki collects information about tools and resources that can help scholars (particularly in the humanities and social sciences) conduct research more efficiently or creatively. Whether you need software to help you manage citations, author a multimedia work, or analyze texts, Digital Research Tools will help you find what you're looking for.

Help your students succeed with these quick lessons on key study-skill topics such as note taking and bibliography writing. Feel free to use these as handouts, or provide a link or the page address so students can re-visit these important tools time and time again.

Everything educators, students, and parents need to make the writing process work in the classroom and at home

A public service helping learners to succeed since 1996.

Reusable Learning Objects (RLOs) developed by the School of Nursing in the subject area of Study skills.

Towards improvement of information literacy in the digital era through useful and meaningful educational programs. If you can't find it on Google, it does not exist?

An Interactive Writing Tutorial. Essay Punch takes users through the process of writing an essay. From pre-set writing prompts users learn to develop an idea and write their descriptive, informative and persuasive essays.

Digital Information Fluency (DIF) is the ability to find, evaluate and use digital information effectively, efficiently and ethically.

Project Information Literacy is a national study about early adults and their information-seeking behaviors, competencies, and the challenges they face when conducting research in the digital age. Based in University of Washington's iSchool, the large-scale research project investigates how early adults on different college campuses conduct research for course work and how they conduct "everyday research" for use in their daily lives...

This free resource is full of practical advice to help you study more effectively at university or college.

You mean it's not just reading the textbook? See definitions and what the studying process is from going to class to getting an A on the test.

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From the University of Central Lancashire. Includes study skills materials.

It's not all watching morning TV and eating Pot Noodles - there's an art to being a student. Read our advice on how to get through university successfully

The Information Literacy Section of the International Federation of Library Association and Institutions (IFLA) has created this database to record information literacy materials from different parts of the world, on behalf of UNESCO.

Study skills are the key to college success. Learning how to use these skills is not always easy but can be beneficial in the long run.

This web site contains tips and tricks to help you manage your time, take better notes, study more effectively, improve memory, take tests, and handle the stresses of college life.

A public service helping learners to succeed; since 1996.

The lives of many online college students are not easy. They have to combine jobs, house chores, family life & do some actual studying. To help online students cope with this burden, a blog sponsored by Western Governors University offers survival tips.

Wisdomap organises information and thought processes and stores them in a visual, memorable and convenient format, while managing media and resources like videos, pictures, websites and files.

Ekpenso is a web-based online mindmapping software. This free mindmapper lets you create mindmaps online, share them with others, download and edit mindmaps while offline, export and save maps as XML or PDF files and more.

Effective study habits have a big impact on academic performance. Without strong organization and time management skills, students can find themselves overwhelmed and struggling with their schoolwork.

This Handbook was written by a group of subject librarians at Cardiff University to support their colleagues in Information Services as they developed their information literacy teaching.

Flat sharing, study, impressing your teachers, being broke, falling in love. A series of advisory articles from The Guardian.

VIKO is an interactive course in information literacy designed for students at Norwegian University of Science and Technology. Consisting of 7 different modules the course provides help in searching for information and writing papers

FUMSI publishes articles, tools, and a monthly magazine, to give you practical help with information skills. If you find this site useful, consider subscribing.

A new resource for dyslexic students has been developed by the University of Sheffield. Designed by a former dyslexia tutor, the website offers a range of writing, reading and referencing tutorials specifically aimed at dyslexia-related difficulties.

This set of video clips is linked to the Study Advice Service website based at The University of Hull. We are a dedicated team of academic tutors who help our students 1:1 with their Academic Writing, Study Skills and Mathematics (including Numeracy).

Welcome to how-to-study.com. Please use the free study skills, study strategies, and study tips on this site. We update our content, so check back often for valuable new study aids.

Developing effective study skills, improving reading comprehension, discovering your own personal study style, learning to manage your time more efficiently and learning the best way to prepare for exams are just a few of the topics covered in "The Study