CamGuides: Finding and Using Resources

This section has given information on how you might develop ways to locate, analyse and interpret information required for your course. The key messages included:

• It's useful to know about, and be confident in using, both generic resources, like iDiscover, the library catalogue, and databases specific to your subject. 
• Your subject and its discourse can often have an impact on how resources are perceived and valued, and the best ways to find and use them.
• Developing good practices around how you use resources, keep track of them, take notes from them, is vital in order to effectively avoid plagiarism.

Useful links from this section

• iDiscover, the University's main library catalogue (but also Apollo, the research repository, and Janus, the archives catalogue)
• an A-Z of databases to which the University subscribes, and an A-Z of online journals too
• other library catalogues - COPAC, and WorldCat
• brilliant for journal articles - Google Scholar, JStor, Project Muse
• find resources for your subject curated by your subject librarians
• install the open access button to make your browser find open access articles where available
• the University of Cambridge definition of plagiarism, and your responsibilities as a student in relation to it