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Modules

» Start

• - Research Team
• - Explore Topics
• - Research Notes
• - Call Numbers

» Explore

• - Research Process
• - Information Types
• - Subject Encyclopedias
• - Books and e-Books
• - Magazines/Journals
• - Primary/Secondary
• - Deep/Invisible Web
• - World Wide Web

» Find

• - Library Catalogs
• - Google Books
• - Periodical Indexes
• - Web Search Tools
• - Wikipedia
• - Search Strategies
• - Boolean Operators
• - Google Search Tips

» Evaluate

• - Introduction
• - Books and Articles
• - Web Sites

» Plagiarism

• - Overview
• - Acknowledging
• - Citing
• - Practice
• - Plagiarism Quiz

Quizzes

• - IRIS Quiz (all modules)
• - Plagiarism Quiz

More Tools

• - Glossary
• - All Modules
• - Outcomes

Tips for Getting Started

Sometimes getting started is the toughest part of a reseach project. These modules can help you focus on your project and also save you time.

Modules:

IRIS 4-2 is an Information Literacy project developed with a grant from the Distance Learning Council of Washington, 2007-2008. Some content, images and activites were inspired by, and/or copied/adapted from TILT: The Texas Information Literacy Tutorial (no longer available). IRIS 4-2 is available for adaptation under the terms of the Creative Commons License.

This version of IRIS 4-2 includes modifications made by Linda Zuvich, Library IT Specialist, Everett Community College Library. An unmodified version may be found at http://www.clark.edu/Library/iris.