This collection contains learning and teaching resources designed to assist teaching staff in developing the research and referencing skills of their students. As these skills are best learned in context, the collection consists of re-useable learning resources that can be used in a variety of learning environments from your LMS unit to face to face tutorial groups.  You can make them available to students to use independently or use them to form part of a learning activity for groups or individuals.  The resources support flipped and active learning approaches to building skills in each part of the research process: finding information, evaluating information, referencing and managing information.

The UWA Library's Information and Digital Literacy Skills Framework [PDF, 258 KB], is a blueprint for developing skills for learning, researching, and working in a digital society and can help you pinpoint the skills your students need.

See the Library Guides for a different format of online learning resource. 

All resources may be embedded or copied by members of the University of Western Australia for the purposes of teaching, administration and research within the University.  Any resources with a Creative Commons licence are also available to those external to the University.

UWA Library may add, change or remove features or resources from the Toolkit at any time. We make no guarantees that specific content items available on this site will be available in the future. If you are a UWA student or staff member who would like to enquire about current access to a specific resource please contact your Librarian team for assistance.

Make your day a little easier! Our librarians have developed a variety of learning paths utilising multiple resources from this toolkit to teach specific skill sets. Find them in the header information on each tab, or in the Learning Paths tab.

Contact your Librarian team for assistance

Resources can be used as standalone learning objects or assembled into modules. There are a variety of formats from digital learning objects, quizzes and videos, to infographics, checklists and worksheets.  There is a visual key to indicate the format of each resource.  See each tab for suggestions on how to use resources in each skill area.

Embed into your LMS

There is an embed code for each online resource which enables you to place the resource in context in your unit.

Click on the title of a resource in this toolkit to see more details about it. In the resource's details screen, click the 'Copy embed code' button to copy the code onto your clipboard, ready to paste into your LMS unit.

To add the embed code into an LMS unit, navigate to the section of your LMS unit where you would like to add the Library resource.

Hover over Build Content and from the drop-down menu click Item under Create.

Alternatively, to add the resource to an existing area, click on the arrow next to the title, and select Edit from the drop-down menu.

In the LMS editor, click the HTML button (< >). This will open a popup window showing HTML code for the section of your LMS unit.

Paste in the embed code for the Library resource.

Click Save. This will close the HTML editor popup.

Click Submit to save your changes.