Finding and evaluating information
These resources will help you use different search techniques and tools, such as Library OneSearch, individual databases and eBooks.
Literature searching
Being a student at University means that you need to be able to undertake research and find useful information to help and support the arguments/points that you make in your work. Discover how to go about doing this more effectively using the following resources:
Evaluating resources
You will be reading and accessing a lot of information during your course, but not all of it is worth you spending time on – how can you tell the good from the bad, the "fake news" from the "real news".
Use the following guides to learn about how you can evaluate different resources to save you time:
Accessing NTU resources
There's a great many resources you can access as an NTU Student, but how you access them can vary depending on whether or not you are on campus. Our off-campus access guides, available on the Nottingham Online Workspace (NOW) will show you how you can get to the information and resources you need, when you need them.