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Essential Software Skills

LinkedIn Learning - for staff and students
Access videos developed by industry professionals on everything from essential software skills in Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Teams, SharePoint and more...

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...through to educational technology, business analysis, project management, leadership, professional and career development.

Finding Information (General)

Asking and Answering the Research Question: Part One (3:55min)
This video explains how to translate your research question into a search in order to find scholarly articles on a topic.
Asking and Answering the Research Question: Part Two (4:03min)
This video explains how to use your prepared search to find articles in FiNDit and other databases.

Referencing

APA Referencing: a simple introduction (1:52)
A short introduction to the 7th edition of APA.
APA Referencing: In-text citations (3:15min)
Introduction to in-text citations using the 7th edition of APA
APA Referencing: Books & eBooks (3:25min)
How to give the full reference for books and eBooks using the APA 7th Edition
APA Referencing: Journal articles (4:03min)
Introduction to referencing journal articles in APA 7th.
APA Referencing: Web pages (2:08)
How to reference web pages using APA 7th.

eBooks

Ebook Central Reader
Discover the features of Ebook Central: including downloading, printing, highlighting and more.
Ebsco eBooks
Discover the features of Ebsco eBooks, including printing, downloading, searching and more.

Systematic Reviews

Systematic Reviews: Part One (35:02min)
Introduction to Systematic Reviews Part 1: Searching and Organizing

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Presented by Lydia Dawe, Health Sciences Liaison Librarian

2:46 What is a Systematic Review
5:11 Systematic Review vs. Literature Review
11:10 Systematic Review Manuals
12:45 Defining the Research Question
14:01Free form vs. Structured Questions
16:01 Protocols
19:38 Overview of the Search Process
22:20 Developing Keywords: text mining
25:22 Search strategy
28:52 Documenting the search
31:39 Where to search
33:57 Help Resources
Systematic Reviews: Part Two (37:34min)
Introduction to Systematic Reviews Part 2: Selecting and exploring

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Presented by Professor Ben Wand, School of Physiotherapy

00:24 Overview
3:36 Selecting studies – first stage
8:00 Selecting studies – second stage
10:28 Extracting information
13:05 Quality appraisal of studies
20:35 Measuring treatment effects and synthesizing data
25:33 Combine data appropriately
30:00 Exploring the data further
31:32 Judging the quality of the evidence base
34:03 Summary of the quality of evidence
34:24 Supervising student projects

Researcher Development Series

Literature Reviews
Focuses on the overarching principles of writing literature reviews, approaches to searching, and tips and tools for keeping track of your sources.