Your Knowledge Laboratory

Info Skills Corner

   Information Basics Tips on analysing your assignment here.
  Find Books and Journals Develop skills for effective searching of ALEPH, your online catalogue.
   What are databases? It is important to select the most appropriate databases for your information needs. .
   How to search for articles It would be impossible to search for articles in journals without the help of commercially produced databases.
  Using the web Over 40 million web sites in the world!
 

Evaluating web sites

Develop skills for effective searching and evaluation of Internet resources.
 

How to reference

A guide to the various referencing styles. See the revised HARVARD UCT guide
 

Manage your references

RefWorks:  an online research management, writing and collaboration tool -- is designed to help researchers easily gather, manage, store and share all types of information, as well as generate citations and bibliographies.
 

 Plagiarism

Taking someone else's ideas or works and passing them off as your own, is theft.

 

 

Updated January 2010

marilyn.wilford@uct.ac.za

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