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The Libraries' Information Literacy Modules are a set of online videos, text tutorials, and quizzes covering topics relating to information literacy. UMass Amherst Libraries are making available these standalone resources to Faculty to use independently in any of your classes. You can link this content wherever you like, and use as much or as little of this content with your students.
Open Educational Resources (OER) are free, openly licensed, educational materials such as textbooks, videos, podcasts, primary source materials, syllabi, etc. that can be used for teaching in place of traditional high-cost course materials.
Search these Open Educational Resources repositories :
https://oer.deepwebaccess.com/oer/desktop/en/search.html
https://oasis.geneseo.edu/
https://openstax.org/
Open education virtual labs and simulations:
https://libguides.mines.edu/oer/simulationslabs
https://opentextbc.ca/virtualscienceresources/
https://www.doitpoms.ac.uk/
To create a compelling story, you might want to investigate these three types of sources:
When starting a research project, it is sometimes helpful to search popular magazines to scaffold information and learn the level of information communicated to a public audience.
The database Academic Search Premier is the ONLY database that will let you search specifically for magazine and trade publications.
Research databases help you find journal articles and many other types of publications. The best database to use is determined by your research topic. Consult Madeleine or Paulina for help!
Off-campus, log in with your UMass Amherst NetID
The databases listed are in ALPHABETICAL order, not in order of importance to your topic.
The Congressional Research Service (CRS) is the non-partisan public policy research arm of the United States Congress.
CRS experts prepare reports to assist members of Congress throughout the legislative process providing background information and data on public policy issues.
Refworks is a tool that can be used to keep your citations and create a bibliography in many citation or journal styles.
Login at http://refworks.proquest.com
Refworks Resource Guide http://proquest.libguides.com/newrefworks/welcome
Doing a group project? Share folders in Refworks to make group work easier.
Use the Refworks Write-N-Cite plug-in to write your paper, insert references, and create a bibliography at the end of the paper.
