Primary Navigation
Book Contents Navigation
Getting to know our textbook
Contributors
1.1 Defining Information Literacy
1.2 Information Literacy Matters
1.3 In Your Discipline
1.4 Research Ready Resources
2.1 Three categories of search tools
2.2 Search engines
2.3 Library discovery tools
2.4 Databases
2.5 Keywords
2.6 Search techniques
2.7 Boolean operators
2.8 Evaluating Your Search Results
2.9 Troubleshooting Common Search Issues
2.10 Using citations to find an item
2.11 Using Physical Items at Steely
2.12 Books to eBooks
2.13 Getting access to materials
3.1 Starting your research
3.2 Determining your scope
3.3 Developing a research question
3.4 Finding background information in Wikipedia
3.5 Formats
3.6 Keeping track of your sources
4.1 Why evaluate information?
4.2 Evaluating with SIFT
4.3 Stop
4.4 Investigate the source
4.5 Investigate the source: Bias
4.6 Find better coverage
4.7 Trace it back
4.8 Putting SIFT into practice
5.1 Let's Define
5.3 Popular and scholarly information
5.4 Primary and secondary sources
5.5 More moves for evaluating scholarly sources
6.1 Understanding Information Privilege
6.3 Open Access
6.4 Paywalls and access
7.1 Citing your sources
7.2 How to cite
7.3 Style manuals
7.4 Plagiarism
7.5 Copyright
7.6 Copyright infringement versus plagiarism
7.7 Understanding fair use
7.8 Promoting yourself as a student researcher
7.9 Putting it all together
Glossary
Chapter 1: What is Information Literacy?
Information literacy plays a role in every field of study.
Previous/next navigation
LIN 175: Information Literacy Copyright © 2022 by Steely Library Education & Outreach Services, Northern Kentucky University is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.