Sealy Library - Tutorials

Information Literacy Tutorials

• Tutorials from CUNY on finding, evaluating, and using information. Includes how to identify what sort of information you need for assignments, and how to effectively search databases and the internet.
  
  
• Searchpath. (from Rutgers University). Searchpath will help you find and critically evaluate information sources.
  
  
• Quickstudy: a Library Research Guide (from the University of Minnesota Libraries) - This is a very good self-paced tutorial that will help you to identify what types of information you need and how to get it. 
  
  
• OASIS (from San Francisco State University Library) - a set of online lessons designed to help improve your skills at finding, using & evaluating information of all kinds.
   
• TILT - Texas Information Literacy Tutorial (from the University of Texas Libraries) - Award winning information literacy tutorial designed for undergraduates.  Three modules teach students skills related to research: selecting appropriate sources, searching library databases and the Internet, and evaluating & citing information.  Each module takes about 30 minutes to complete.  Available in two versions: "Full TILT" (with high interactivity) and "TILT Lite" (which requires no special plug-in software on your computer)
   
• Criminal justice research: A self paced tutorial (from the State University of New York at Albany) - The tutorial is designed for the novice academic researcher and presents a basic strategy for finding information for criminal justice research projects

Internet & World Wide Web Tutorials

• Finding Information on the Internet: A Tutorial (from the University of California at Berkeley Libraries) -
  
  
• Using the World Wide Web for Accessing Information (from San Francisco State University Libraries - Part of the OASIS tutorial listed above (chapter 4).  Especially appropriate for Freshmen, tutorial covers the basics
  
  
• Evaluating Web Pages: Techniques to Apply & Questions to Ask - brief tutorial from the University of California at Berkeley's series of Internet Teaching Guides.  Presents a series of concrete steps to take when evaluating Web pages. 
  

Evaluating Information Tutorials

• Evaluating Sources of Information - from the Purdue Owl - discusses the evaluation of all types of information not limited to Internet sources.  Sections include: Getting Started, Evaluating a Bibliographic Citation, Evaluating Content, Evaluating Internet Sources.
  

Plagiarism Tutorials

• Internet Detective - This web site helps students distinguish between good and bad information found on the Internet and offers help on the rules for citation.
  
  
• Oops, I plagiarized - from UCLA - This tutorial explains the issues of plagiarism and includes cases of plagiarism that have been reported in the news.
  
  
• Plagiarism: What it is and how to recognize and avoid it - This web site is part of the Writing Tutorial Services at Indiana University - Bloomington.
  
  
• You Quote It, You Note It - from Vaughan Memorial Librari, Acadia University - This tutorial uses a game approach to learning about plagiarism. The student can select to move through the tutorial as a student with an undecided major or a student with interests in the area of the arts, or the sciences, or professional studies.