Category Archives: Information

Getting to journals and journal articles is still more difficult than it should be – how are online services trying to help students and academics get to the latest research? TechCrunch reports that Academia.edu has launched a directory of 12,500 … Continue reading →

Typing a few keywords into Google isn’t research, yet the words search and research are often bandied about as though they were interchangeable – but is this a new problem? Surprisingly, no. The notion that the word research is used … Continue reading →

Two recent studies looking at student attitudes to technology have found similar themes, despite being conducted on opposite sides of the Atlantic. The ECAR Study of Undergraduate Students and Information Technology, 2010 is the annual survey of US undergraduate students … Continue reading →

Xpert Attribution is a new tool from the University of Nottingham that can help you credit your sources when using images, audio and video. Much attention has been focused on citation and plagiarism advice about the correct use of textual … Continue reading →

The shortlisted candidates for the Times Higher Education Awards 2010 have been unveiled for various categories including the Outstanding ICT Initiative that will be judged by JISC. If you have not heard about all the six contenders, they are listed … Continue reading →

Last week the Virtual Training Suite team attended the Economics Network e-learning symposium. Among a series of presentations on how economics lecturers were using technology, Paul Latreille of Swansea University spoke about “Tweaching for Economists“. Paul emphasised the thought process … Continue reading →

Google Instant provides search results as you type, but is this necessarily a good thing? The latest search innovation from Google is to provide search results as you type. It aims to deliver faster searches, smarter predictions and instant results. … Continue reading →

Each Virtual Training Suite tutorial tells students about the scholarly publication process, points them to key journals in their field and refers them to key databases where they can find more articles, but what happens after they have found a … Continue reading →

Evaluating websites is an important part of becoming information literate, but can videos help to get the message across to students? There are quite a few videos on YouTube about evaluating websites and luckily some of them are from libraries … Continue reading →

Some might say that the recent installation by Slovakian artist Matej Kren at the Museum of Modern Art in Bologna composed of thousands upon thousands of books, shows the importance of books as building blocks of knowledge. However, the rise … Continue reading →