Practise your Information Skills Here
There are several useful Internet gateways and tutorials to help you develop your information skills.
Here are a few of them:
Intute
There are millions of resources available on the Internet. How do you know which ones are reputable and have any academic authority? Intute is a free, online service that gives you access to the key websites in your subject, which have been reviewed and evaluated by subject specialists.
Intute is created by a consortium of seven universities (Birmingham, Bristol, Heriot-Watt, Manchester, MMU, Nottingham and Oxford).
www.intute.ac.uk/artsandhumanities
Intute Virtual Training Suite
Intute has developed free Internet tutorials to help you develop Internet research skills in your particular subject area.
All the tutorials have been written and reviewed by a national team of lecturers and librarians from universities across the UK.
Internet Detective
Internet Detective is another online tutorial. It's designed to help students who want to use the Internet for research to evaluate the quality of websites.
www.vts.intute.ac.uk/detective
Image Searching
The Image Searching tutorial teaches you how to search for copyright cleared images for your work quickly and efficiently.
www.vts.intute.ac.uk/tutorial/imagesearching
SAFARI
SAFARI has been developed by the Open University as "a guided expedition through the information world", in 7 sections. Apparently it's a jungle out there!
Good luck!