Research Strategies

http://www.acts.twu.ca/LBR/textbook.htm
a textbook in informational research for students in higher education.

Intute

http://www.intute.ac.uk/
Intute is a free online service providing you with a database of hand selected Web resources for education and research.

Information Literacy Standards for Science and Engineering/Technology

http://www.ala.org/ala/acrl/acrlstandards/infolitscitech.cfm
Information literacy competency and the purpose of information literacy competency standards are fully described in the ACRL document at http://www.ala.org/ala/acrl/acrlstandards/standards.pdf. This document states (page 4, Section 1:2) that information literacy “is common to all disciplines, to all learning environments, and to all levels of education.” Information literacy in science, engineering, and [...]

ACRL Information Literacy Initiatives

http://www.ala.org/ala/acrl/acrlissues/acrlinfolit/professactivity/initiatives/acrlinfolitinitiatives.cfm
For those working in Information Literacy, ACRL has programs in the areas of:

Professional Development
Assessment
Instructional Development
Partnerships

Special Issue: Information Literacy: One Key to Education

New Directions for Teaching and Learning v114, 2008 is a themed issue around Information Literacy. It’s great to see a mainstream T&L journal according the issue this degree of importance, the editorial includes comments such as ” information literacy can be viewed as a call to another approach to content and [...]

PRIMO: Peer-Reviewed Instructional Materials Online

http://www.ala.org/ala/acrlbucket/is/iscommittees/webpages/emergingtech/primo/index.cfm
PRIMO, a committee of the ACRL Instruction Section, promotes and shares peer-reviewed instructional materials created by librarians to teach people about discovering, accessing and evaluating information in networked environments. The PRIMO Committee hopes that publicizing selective, high quality resources will help librarians to respond to the educational challenges posed by [...]

A C Grayling on Information Literacy in the New Scientist

I picked this up on the LIS-MEDICAL mailing list this morning (thanks to Julian Hodgson).  A C Grayling has written a short opinion piece in the current issue of New Scientist (Commentary: The importance of knowing how, 6th August
2008) on students critical thinking skills. He argues that learning how to evaluate information (especially on the [...]

The Web Guide to Research for Undergraduates (WebGURU)

http://www.webguru.neu.edu/
The purpose of this website is to provide undergraduates interested in and/or currently participating in undergraduate research experiences in science, technology, engineering, an/or mathematics with ready information and links to reliable electronic resources on all aspects of the undergraduate research experience.
source: Gerry McKiernan

Facilitating Information Literacy Education (FILE)

http://www.ilit.org/file/indexfile.htm
FILE aims to equip participants with the competences and the confidence required to produce a portfolio of learning resources that fosters effective use of information by specific groups of users.

This course was commissioned by London Health Libraries (LHL) as part of the Learner Support Programme (LSP), and by the National [...]

Applied Information Research (AIR)

http://www.ilit.org/air/indexair.htm
By the end of the AIR module you will be able to:

Design a research project exploring an issue relevant to the information profession in support of an application for funding.
Identify and evaluate relevant literature in order to contextualise the research proposal.
Select research strategies appropriate to the nature of the proposed research project.
Communicate [...]