Welcome to SKIL Copyright Notice Acknowledgements
Skills You Will Learn What is Information Literacy? Information Overload Types of Sources
Where Do I Find All These Sources? Public vs. Invisible Web Web Resources Starting with the Web Starting with the Library The Library: Quality over Quantity The Library on the Web Skills Review Self Assessment
Skills You Will Learn Searching Defined Brainstorm Trouble Brainstorming? Brainstorming Search Terms The Thought Process (Activity) Keyword Searching How to Find Subject Headings Combining Ideas Tools for Keyword Searching
Tips For Better Search Results Socrates A Socrates Book Record Fields in a Record Author Search in Socrates (Activity)
Subject Searching Subject Headings in Socrates (Activity)
Where's Socrates? Finding Help Skills Review Self Assessment
Skills You Will Learn Sources Popular Magazines or Scholarly Journals? (Activity)
Appropriate Source Popular and Scholarly Periodicals What About Primary Resources? Primary Resources at Stanford Government Documents as Primary Resources Research as a Process What Is a Database? What Will a Periodical Index Do? Detailed Record Periodical Indexes Databases at Stanford Your Assignment Database Search (Activity)
Database vs. Socrates Searching for Periodical Titles Periodical Titles in Socrates (Activity)
Microtext at Stanford Format of Material Skills Review Self Assessment
Skills You Will Learn Organizing Material Locate It in Print Explaining Call Numbers : LC Explaining Call Numbers : Dewey Understanding Call Numbers LC Classification Call Numbers (Activities) Government Documents Classification Finding Print Periodicals Finding Articles Finding Journals Online E-journals Interlibrary Services Status and Location How to Read the Record Stanford Auxiliary Library Where to Find a Book or Journal Checking Out Materials My Circulation Records Course Reserves Green Library Online Tour Skills Review Self Assessment
Skills You Will Learn Untangling the Web The Future of Searching About the Web Uniform Resource Locator URLs (Activity) Locate It on the Web Search Engines: Subject Directories Search Engines: General Metasearch Engines Ranking Tips for Web Searching Groups on the Web Dot What? Use the Web Wisely Skills Review Self Assessment
Skills You Will Learn Evaluating Criterion
Evaluating Web Sites (Activity) Plagiarism Honor Code Plagiarism? It's Your Call (Activity) Five Tips for Avoiding Plagiarism Parts of a Citation Style Guide Bibliographic Tools And then there's Copyright Fair Use Skills Review Self Assessment
