Becoming information literate at the University Library!
By increasing your information literacy skills, you can
- search,
- select,
- obtain and
- evaluate
scholarly information more effectively.
These tutorials, set up by the University Library of Erasmus University Rotterdam, are available for you at any time throughout your years of study. They are part of the 'Information literacy modular training method'.
General courses
- Get to know the University Library
A basic course with information about borrowing and reserving books, finding journals and about what to do when you CANNOT find them. - Internet Research
'It is a piece of cake!' About the quality of Internet resources, with tips for search engines and subject gateways. - Online scholarly collaboration: how to make your own collaboratory or virtual research environment.
- References and citations
'All that remains is the bibliography': everything about making proper reference to the sources used and citation styles for print and electronic publications. - RefWorks
Introduction to RefWorks, an online reference manager. - Scholarly publishing
'Not just for professors': the ins and outs of (new) ways of scholarly publishing. - Web of Science
How to search recent literature on the basis of older publications on the subject of your literature study. This method is called 'cited reference search'.
By discipline
- What is a book?!
For philosophy students: after following this course you will be able to find your way in scholarly literature in order to make a good start in your studies. - Searching for scholarly information / management and economics
Everything's on the Internet, isn't it? How to select, retrieve and evaluate scholarly information. - Searching for scholarly information / social sciences
Everything's on the Internet, isn't it? How to select, retrieve and evaluate scholarly information. - Get started with financial data
Tutorials to independently work with financial databases like Datastream and Thomson One Banker.
Click on the links in the menu to the left for further information.
