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Collections
Scholarly Communication Notebook by OER Commons (varied licenses).
The Scholarly Communication Notebook (SCN) is an IMLS grant-funded collaborative project between North Carolina State University Libraries, University of Kansas Libraries, and University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign School of Information Sciences whose purpose is to host community-designed examples of teaching and doing scholarly communication that we hope will be regularly refreshed by librarians from across the field as well as LIS faculty and students completing coursework on these topics. We hope this group will become a locus of an active, inclusive, empowered community of practice for teaching scholarly communications to emerging librarians.
Courses
Reading Texts: An Interactive Workshop by KPU Learning Centres and Christina Page (CC BY-NC-SA).
Reading Texts: An Interactive Workshop guides you through a series of videos and exercises to help you read efficiently and purposefully. The workshop as a part of the Academic Skills Workshop series developed by the KPU Learning Centres.
Supplementary Materials
Independent Research Guide by Joe Dewhurst (CC BY-NC-SA).
This guide to independent research is intended to help students and scholars who lack institutional support, or anyone who might otherwise be looking for some guidance into how to conduct research. It is aimed primarily at philosophers, although several of the points outlined below may be more broadly applicable. The guide is split into three main sections: Finding academic material, critically engaging with texts, and presenting your research.
Textbooks
Academic Skills Pocketbook by Richard Scharges; Ashleigh Watson; Linda Thornely; and Susan McGlynn (CC BY-NC-SA).
There is so much to learn when you start university. This book will focus on the most important academic skills you’ll need to get started, leaving sufficient ‘room’ for actual learning and reducing your cognitive load. This book aims to give you a quick understanding of these skills which you can then apply within your area of study. It aligns to UN Sustainable Development Goal 4 – Quality Education supporting inclusive and affordable access to higher educational resources.
BC Campus Academic Success Textbooks by various (varied Licenses).
Bridges: United States Academia for First-Generation and International College Students by Shawn Higgins (CC BY) .
Bridges introduces students to a wide range of concepts, institutions, histories, and artifacts of United States college and university life. After discussing these items in easy-to-scan, concise, nuance-free prose, this textbook then offers useful lists, templates for writing and speaking in different discourses and situations, thought-provoking questions and activities for self-study and for classroom work, and pertinent hyperlinks for further information. Bridges is designed to help first-generation, first-year, English language learners, and/or culturally unfamiliarized stud