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Skills help

You can receive help about how to search for information using relevant resources.

Check your departmental timetable for sessions with the Library. In addition you may find other useful library sessions in the University skills programmes below.

DoctoralSkills
Workshops and courses for doctoral students, organised by The Doctoral College and delivered by specialist university staff or external trainers.
Information skills tutorial
How to find information from books and journals to use in your coursework: Moodle resource for University of Bath students.
SU skills
Aimed at undergraduates and Masters students.

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Description: Interactive tutorials with activities and tests covering: reading and note making, critical thinking skills and referencing and understanding plagiarism.

Finding and critically evaluating information

How to do a literature search
Web search guide
A guide to using internet search engines, Google databases and alternative tools.

How to evaluate information

Testing what you know: past exam papers

Past exam papers
The Library provides you with access to Semester 1 and Semester 2 exam papers from the last 5 years, to help with revision. If you can't find the paper you are looking for it may be because:
• The unit code has changed
• It has been restricted by your Department
Please be aware that older papers might not be relevant to current course content.

Improve your research software skills

Research Software Learning Online
A guide to research software online courses from O'Reilly Learning. Courses cover Excel, Git and GitHub, LaTEX, MATLAB, Python, R and RS Studio, SAS, SPSS, Stata and SQL.