Selecting Evaluating and Using Information and Data
To be digitally capable in this area is to critically evaluate and select reliable sources of information, and search effectively to find the information or data that you need to answer a question. Selecting and using the information that you need is a skill that will support you throughout your studies, but also in employment and when researching all kinds of other projects in life.
Use the University Library to effectively search for and access academic literature
- Your Academic Liaison Librarian can help you to find information, and search using the most effective techniques (students and staff)
- Good skills can help you to answer questions (students and staff)
- Can you the reliability of information that you find online? (students and staff)
Use, collect, and share personal data safely and securely
- Store information about students and colleagues safely and securely
- Student Privacy Notice (students and staff)
- Research Ethics and Data Protection (staff)
- Data Protection webpages (staff)
- Share information with those who need it
- Apply good data protection principles to your work
- Research Data Management (staff)
- Be aware of where you own data is going, and how much you are willing to share
Re-use information, quotations, media and understand how to reference and credit authors
- Read up on academic referencing expectations and practices on the Library's (students)
- Read the Study Advice (staff and students)