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Online Tutorials


This page provides links to a number of online tutorials. These tutorials will help you develop your skills in finding, using, interpreting and evaluating information.

Subject specific online tutorials designed by the University of Leicester to help students appreciate what plagiarism is and how to avoid it
University of Sussex Library's Information Skills guide. It will help you to find your way through the Library's collections of print and online resources. You can learn how to search the catalogue effectively, interpret your reading list, identify relevant information, use the electronic library, reference your sources correctly and avoid plagiarism.
Internet Detective

This tutorial adopts a film noir detective metaphor to offer a light-hearted guide to developing Internet skills to help with studying and research including practical advice on evaluating the quality of websites and highlights the need for care when selecting online information sources to inform university work.Check out the section "The Good, the bad and the ugly" for spoof and scam sites.

Intute: Virtual Training Suite

A set of subject specific tutorials which offer internet skills training for all levels - students, researchers and lecturers.

TONIC - The Online Netskills Interactive course An easy to understand interactive skills course offering practical guidance in major internet topics. This course is produced with support from JISC for the UK higher education community.