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   A. Understanding Information
   B. Finding Information
   C. Using Information


Welcome to the Biomedical Library Information Skills tutorial. This tutorial will help you identify the types of information that you need for your assignments as well as show you how to find and select the appropriate and relevant information to use in your studies.

You may start from chapter 1, and work your way through sequentially or begin at a section relevant to you. The chapters vary in length - some will take you only 15 mins to complete whereas others may take about 45 mins. It will take you approximately 3-4 hours to complete the whole tutorial - a time well invested to equip yourself with core information skills for academic study.

 
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Chapter 1: Information Sources
This section explores the nature of different information sources to help you use the appropriate ones for your information needs.

Chapter 2 - Finding reading list items
Chapter 3 - Finding books
Chapter 4 - Finding journal articles
Chapter 5 - Finding internet resources
Chapter 6 - Where is...? UNSW library collection
Chapter 7 - Refereed articles
This section will show you how to search for different types of information sources.

Chapter 8 - Evaluating information, plagiarism and citing references
This section outlines the evaluation process, plagiarism, and shows you how to cite your references when writing up an assignment.

 
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