Help with researching a topic, looking for evidence, and thinking critically about what you find...

Getting started

• IT Essentials
  A guide to using IT at the University of York:
  Getting started | Devices & operating systems | Applications | Internet | Files & organisation | Microsoft Office Essentials | Google Essentials
• Supporting students' digital literacies
  Guidance and materials to support the development of students' digital literacies in academic programmes, including advice for embedding digital literacies.
• Higher Education Essentials
  The ways and means of how a university works:
  What is a university? | How will I learn at university? | How will I be assessed? | What support is available?
• Returning students
  Updated every summer as a refresher with specific skills advice for 2nd year and final year students:
  What's new? | 2nd year skills | Final year skills | Wellbeing

Sources of information

• Data
  Finding and handling useful data:
  What is data? | Gathering data | Searching for data | Text & data mining | Cleaning data | Data analysis | Data visualisation
• Searching for information
  A look at different sources of information and how to search them to find the information you need:
  Physical sources | Online sources | Search skills | Sifting through results

• Generative AI

Being critical

• Being critical
  Our guide to evaluating and critiquing information:
  Critical thinking | Evaluating information | Reading academic articles | Critical reading | Critical writing

• Troubleshooting
• You don't know what you don't know

Research integrity

• Copyright
  Protecting your own copyright and staying legal and ethical when using other people's material:
  Copyright law explained | For students | For teachers | For researchers
• Referencing style guides
  How to cite appropriately using the different styles in use at York.