Internet Tutorials for Engineering

Research Skills

InfoTrekk: your guide through the information maze Curtin University of Technology Library online tutorial. A series of ten steps or treks you can take in less than an hour, to learn about analysing your topic, understanding your reading list, referencing, evaluating resources and more.

Tutorial for Information Power (TIP) University of Wyoming Libraries online tutorial. Learn to investigate a research topic for possible information sources, search for information about your topic, locate the information you searched, evaluate the quality of information you find, utilize that quality information for your papers, speeches, or projects.

The Researcher's companion is an online tutorial aimed at postgraduate students. It provides information retrieval skills training, including some specific subject areas. It also covers relevant topics such as plagiarism, the evaluation of resources, and managing searches and results. It has been developed jointly by staff at the University of Surrey Library and Information Services at the University of Surrey Roehampton.

Internet Searching

Internet for Engineering and Mathematics This site includes a number of online tutuorials relevant to anyone interested in developing their use of the Internet to support learning and teaching in engineering and mathematics, and other subject areas. For example:
     Internet Civil Engineer a free 'teach yourself' tutorial of Internet information skills, maintained by EEVL (Edinburgh Engineering Virtual Library). It includes, amongst other things, a tour of key Internet sites for civil engineers, how to search the Internet, what to trust on the Internet, learn how to Cite Internet Resources, and invites reflection on how to get the most from the Internet for your work.

Deep Content: Guide to effective searching of the Internet BrightPlanet tutorial, organized to proceed from the basics to more advanced topics. It is divided into two sections: 'Searching with Internet Provided Resources' and 'Using a Powerful Desktop Resource: LexiBotTM'. The first section has 12 parts containing 51 topics and describes the search services, available operators, and the extremely important information on how to compose your queries. The second section contains 11 topics and describes using LexiBot .

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