Information skills support
Discover how to find, evaluate and manage information through our online training events and resources.
What are information skills?
Information skills are important for your studies, research and life after university. Developing these skills will help you to find, assess and use information in the most effective way.
- Finding resources for your assignments and research
- Using databases
- Evaluating information to assess relevance, quality and reliability
- Searching for evidence for a systematic review
- Referencing and using EndNote
Learning resources
Your subject guide
Discover the key resources for your subject area from books and journals to subject databases and specialist information
Information skills
Our collection of online resources introduces you to a wide range of information skills. Work through them at your own pace and revisit them anytime.
Getting started
Literature searching
Critically evaluating information
Advanced information skills
Using EndNote
Find out how to use EndNote to manage your references.
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Webinars and one-to-one appointments
Join our weekly themed webinars for an insight into different the different areas of information skills or request a one-to-one appointment to delve further into a specific question.
Upcoming sessions
- Date
- 17/11/2025
- Description
- Looking to find out more about the subject databases within Engineering and how to search them effectively to find information? This webinar will focus on a selection of the key databases from our Engineering collections.
- Date
- 17/11/2025
- Description
- This session is suitable for postgraduate research students and research staff undertaking a systematic or scoping review. This session introduces strategies for identifying and retrieving evidence from the published literature, emphasising methods that are comprehensive, transparent, and reproducible. Booking is required.
- Date
- 17/11/2025
- Description
- Want to find out more about using EndNote to keep track of references you find through your literature searches? This webinar is suitable for all students.
- Date
- 18/11/2025
- Description
- Do you want to learn more about using library resources, such as your reading lists, NUsearch and follow up references. This webinar is suitable for all first year undergraduate students in all subjects.
- Date
- 18/11/2025
- Description
- Discover how to search the web more effectively by using advanced search functionality and social media. This webinar is suitable for undergraduate and masters students in all subjects.
- Date
- 19/11/2025
- Description
- Doing a systematic review for a project or dissertation? Expand your knowledge of the literature searching process in this webinar. This webinar is suitable for undergraduate and masters students doing systematic reviews for projects or dissertations.
- Date
- 19/11/2025
- Description
- Looking for information on education policies and practice? Or preschool, primary, secondary, higher, special, adult education? Discover some of the key databases from our Education collection, and how to search them effectively to find relevant information. This webinar is suitable for all students studying Education.
- Date
- 20/11/2025
- Description
- Discover how to think critically when reading and evaluating information, particularly papers found in published journals. This webinar is suitable for undergraduates (year two onwards) and masters students.
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Support for teaching
Request a tailored information skills session for your students or embed our asynchronous resources in your modules to support coursework and assignments.
To find out more visit Support for teaching.
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