Digital Literacy

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Digital Literacy Tutorials

 

Welcome to the portal for Digital Literacy Tutorials at the University of Illinois Libraries. Here you will find various tutorials, guides, and digital tools created to help you find, evaluate, and critically use information sources. These tutorials cover:

The following tutorials are also available on YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/DigitalLiteracy.

General Tutorials

Electronic Thesis and Dissertations

Provides a step-by-step process for submitting your theses electronically. See requirements at:  http://grad.illinois.edu/thesis

  • You Tube version
  • Flash Version (you can turn off the captioning by clicking on the CC on the menu bar at the bottom)
  • Quick Time Version (for higher quality, but the captioning can't be turned off)

Online Research Resources

Introduces you to the Online Research Resources (ORR) page. This page serves as the entry point for the UIUC Library's electronic resources. The ORR can be accessed through the Library Gateway

RefWorks

Introduces you to RefWorks, a tool that collects, stores and organizes citations from books, articles, web sites, and other sources. It can automatically format those citations into a bibliography in a multitude of different citation styles. Refworks is provided by the Library and CITES without charge to UIUC students, staff and faculty.


Subject Area Tutorials

ABI/Inform

Introduces you to ABI/INFORM Complete (offered through the University of Illinois Business and Economics Library).The ABI/Inform database contains content from thousands of journals that help researchers track business conditions, trends, management techniques, corporate strategies, and industry-specific topics worldwide.

Education Research

Provides initial steps for using research tools in the field of education.

ERIC

Provides the steps to searching and retrieving information from the ERIC database. ERIC, the Education Resources Information Center, is an internet-based digital library of education research and information sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education.

Health Information

Module 1: Finding Health Information: Beginning Research on A Health Topic - provides assistance in finding health information.

  • Flash Version (you can turn off the captioning by clicking on the CC on the menu bar at the bottom)
  • Quick Time Version (for higher quality, but the captioning can't be turned off and it is slower to load



 

EuroStat

The EuroStat website offers " Direct access to the latest and most complete statistical information available on the European Union, the EU Member States, the euro-zone and other countries".

PsycINFO

Provides the steps to searching and retrieving information from the PsycINFO database. PsycINFO provides citations with abstracts to the scholarly literature in the psychological, social, behavioral, and health sciences.

Roper

The Roper Center for Public Opinion Research is one of the world's leading archives of social science data, specializing in data from surveys of public opinion.

Additional Tutorials and Assistance

Tutorials Related to Learning Objects

For demonstrations on how to use various learning objects see our Libguide on Learning Objects or our Learning Objects Page at: https://cms.library.uiuc.edu/cms/diglit/faculty/teaching/tools/index.html

Samples include:

Audacity   Flash    Quicktime

Sea Monkey   Flash      Quicktime

Snag It  Flash      Quicktime

WebTools  Flash   Quicktime

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Module 2: Finding Health Information: Selecting a Database -provides assistance
in finding health information.

 

The following  provide additional guidance for students and faculty.

Lightning Learn

Provides brief two to three minute video tutorials covering basic library tools and resources.

How Do I?

Web pages with tips on the research process.