100 Science Information Tutorial - UC IRVINE (TUTORIAL)

Course Description

This Science Information tutorial was created to help UCI undergraduate students understand the fundamental processes of knowledge creation and scholarly communication in the basic and applied sciences. The self-paced tutorial uses a series of interactive exercises to illustrate concepts such as the scientific method, peer review, scholarly communication, and methods of locating and evaluating scientific literature and information sources. This tutorial is divided into three sections: (1) Creating, Sharing and Finding Science Information; (2) Science and Engineering Sources and Resources; (3) Reading, Evaluating and Citing Information.

Attribution

© 2009 Regents of the University of California . Authored by University of California Irvine librarians Cathy Palmer, Jeanine Scaramozzino, Mitchell Brown, John Sisson, Julia Gelfand.