Information Literacy: Links to Other Websites

Topics

• UCF Information Fluency Initiative
• ACRL Standards for Information Literacy
• Information Literacy Assignments
• Information Literacy Tutorials
• Scholarly Journals vs. Other sources
• Evaluating websites
• Plagiarism

UCF Information Fluency Initiative

UCF Information Fluency Homepage
http://if.ucf.edu/index.php

Quality Enhancement Plan (QEP) Document
http://iaaweb.ucf.edu/qep/UCF_QEP_document.pdf

QEP Detailed Task and Assessment Plan
http://iaaweb.ucf.edu/qep/development_docs/qep_detailed_task_plan_final.pdf

QEP IF Enhancement Grants RFP
http://if.ucf.edu/faculty/enhancement_grants.php

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ACRL Standards for Information Literacy

ACRL Information Literacy website. Association of College & Research Libraries.
http://www.ala.org/ala/acrl/acrlissues/acrlinfolit/informationliteracy.htm

Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education. Association of College & Research Libraries. http://www.ala.org/ala/acrl/acrlstandards/informationliteracycompetency.htm

Information Literacy in Action. Association of College & Research Libraries.
http://www.ala.org/ala/acrl/acrlissues/acrlinfolit/infolitresources/infolitinaction/infolitaction.htm

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Information Literacy Assignments

Creating Effective Library Assignments: A Guide for Instructors. University of New Brunswick.
http://www.lib.unb.ca/instruction/assignments.html

Information Literacy and Writing Assessment Project: Tutorial for Developing and Evaluating Assignments . University of Maryland University College. Information and Library Services.
http://www.umuc.edu/library/tutorials/information_literacy/toc.html

Creating Effective Library Assignments. University of Maryland University Libraries.
http://www.lib.umd.edu/guides/assignment.html

Caldwell, J. Designing assignments to develop information literacy skills. Drew University Library.
http://www.users.drew.edu/~jcaldwel/assign.html

Frank, I. Making Library- Related Assignments. Information Literacy. University of South Florida Libraries.
http://www.lib.usf.edu/ref/ifrank/infolit.html 

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Information Literacy Tutorials

UCF Libraries Research Tutorial
http://library.ucf.edu/Reference/Instruction/ENC1102Tutorial/

TILT Tutorial. University of Texas System Digital Library
http://tilt.lib.utsystem.edu/

Searchpath. Western Michigan University.
http://www.wmich.edu/library/searchpath/

CSU Information Competance. Cal Poly State University.
http://www.lib.calpoly.edu/infocomp/modules/index.html

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Scholarly Journals vs. Other sources

What’s the Difference? Scholarly Journals vs. Magazines. University of Central Florida Libraries.
http://library.ucf.edu/Reference/Guides/ScholarlyvPopular.asp

Peer-Reviewed or Refereed Journals. Robert E. Kennedy Library, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo.
http://www.lib.calpoly.edu/research/guides/peer.html

UNF Library Student Guide: What is a Refereed Article?
http://www.unf.edu/library/guides/refereedarticle.html 

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Evaluating websites

Evaluating Internet Sources. University of Central Florida Libraries.
http://library.ucf.edu/Reference/Guides/InternetEvaluation.asp

Evaluating Web Pages: Techniques to Apply & Questions to Ask. UC Berkeley. Finding Information on the Internet: A Tutorial.
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/Evaluate.html

Evaluating Web Sites. University of Texas, Austin. Instruction Resources: Activities.
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/services/instruction/resources/active.html

Resource Discovery Network’s Internet Detective Tutorial.
http://www.vts.intute.ac.uk/detective

Evaluating Websites. UCF Course Development and Web Services. Are there resources to assist me?
http://learn.ucf.edu/3resources/3evalwebsite.html

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Plagiarism

The Plagiarism Court: You Be the Judge. Fairfield University DiMenna-Nyselius Library.
http://www.fairfield.edu/documents/Library/plagicourt.swf

Avoiding Plagiarism. The University Writing Center, University of Central Florida.
http://www.uwc.ucf.edu/WritingResources/Handouts/avoiding_plagiarism.htm

Paraphrase: Write It in Your Own Words. Online Writing Lab, Purdue University.
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/research/r_paraphr.html

Indiana University-Bloomington, School of Education, How to Recognize Plagiarism.
http://www.indiana.edu/~istd/example1paraphrasing.html

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Last update: 03 June 2009