Guides and Assistance at
the Academy Library, UNSW@ADFA
The guides and help information included here provide assistance
in making effective use of the Academy Library's services and
resources. Check out our InfoSkills
Sessions for scheduled workshops and seminars.
Improve your academic literacy
skills. Learn some strategies for developing critical analysis,
reading and note-taking skills, researching sources, avoiding
plagiarism and writing assignments...
Access our list of course specific guides with
handouts and tutorial exercises prepared for information skills
and/or research training sessions...
Provides tips to understanding and using the online Course
Reserve facility...
Links to resources that provide some guidelines
for using the many different citation styles available to
reference authors, books, journals, Internet sources etc...
Frequently asked questions relating to the ELISE
(Enabling Library
and Information Skills
for Everyone) online tutorial...
The Academy Library offers training in EndNote
to staff and postgraduate students. A number of EndNote
resources are available, including the latest EndNote
training manuals - EndNote
Basic and EndNote
Advanced.
Information to provide
you with strategies or steps to finding and accessing required
information or resources. Includes guides on How
to Develop a Search Strategy, Boolean
Operators, Replacing My Card, and many more...
Overview guides of the key resources available
from the Acadamy Library in a range of subject based areas...
Informative and practical help on maximising
the effectiveness of Sirius and accessing required information
(including fulltext) from databases, library catalogues,
search engines, subject gateways, eprint servers, and other
resources...