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
- 27/03/2026
- 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
- 24/04/2026
- Description
- You'll be guided through setting up your own EndNote Desktop library and will discover how to use EndNote's key features to help you import, manage, organise and edit the references you find through your literature searches for your research.
- Date
- 07/05/2026
- 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
- 14/05/2026
- Description
- This session will explore how to search different types of grey literature effectively, explain the importance of citation searching, discuss the pros and cons of using generative AI tools, and give an overview of tools that support the systematic review workflow. Booking is required.
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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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