Do you often directly copy word for word from your textbook? Do you write down every single thing your lecturer says?
Here is a fantastic resource on taking notes from a textbook:
The right way to take notes from a textbook
And here is a post about taking notes during lectures:
How to take notes like a pro- upgrade your skills
She also has some great templates for organising your learning, check them out!
What it is:
Britannica Academic delivers fast and easy access to high-quality, comprehensive information. The rich combination of the venerable Encyclopædia Britannica plus Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary, magazines and periodicals, and many other research tools provides the variety of reliable sources that students need to consult when conducting thorough research—all from one resource. Written by Nobel laureates, historians, curators, professors, and other notable experts, Britannica Academic’s articles provide trusted information with balanced, global perspectives and insights that users will not find anywhere else.
Who it’s for: everyone! (Hint: it’s a lot more trustworthy than Wikipedia!)
How to access it:
http://www.avondale.edu.au/library/databases/letter-b/
Select Britannica Online
Special features:
Examples of available texts:
Mark Remembrance Day with a selection of Australian war stories
Even though Remembrance Day is over, reflect on Australia’s wartime history and its affects in our selection of documentaries. Watch first-person accounts of the impact of serving in a revealing episode of You Can’t Ask That, and discover more about our nation’s role in global conflicts. Begin your historiography of World War I with Charles Bean’s Great War, relive a journalist’s experience in Gallipoli: When Murdoch Went to War, and hear personal stories from soldiers’ diaries, as narrated by Sam Neill in Gallipoli. Australian Story tells World War II’s The Story of the Krait and learn about the technology that shaped life in the trenches in Aussie Inventions That Changed the World.
Australia at war: changing perspectives
See how depictions of Australia’s involvement in war have changed over eight decades, from 1940’s World War I epic Forty Thousand Horsemen, to 2019’s Vietnam War drama, Danger Close. Revisit Australian New Wave film with Breaker Morant, Gallipoli and The Lighthorsemen, and the more recent Kokoda and Beneath Hill 60.
Many of you have had trouble accessing articles from Avondale Library’s databases.
We have been in contact with Avondale IT and they have told us that this is due to computer updates.
So….. if when you are accessing Avondale Library’s databases and the following, or similar, security error occurs…… conduct a Windows update or an Apple update on your computer.
This should resolve the error.
If you are still having issues with this error after updating your computer please let the library know.
What is it:
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is the world’s most widely used index to educational-related literature. Established in 1966, ERIC is supported by the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Educational Research and Improvement. ERIC is the largest education database in the world.
Who is it for:
A comprehensive, easy-to-use, searchable, Internet-based bibliographic and full-text database of education research and information for educators, researchers, and the general public.
How to access this database:
A-Z Databases: E (avondale.edu.au) Choose ERIC
Examples of available content:
Special features:
ERIC provides access to 1.5 million bibliographic records of
Search tricks:
Home – ERIC – LibGuides at ProQuest
What it is:
A web based encyclopedia, sharing an array of historical topics and narratives through text, video, interactive features, and social media.
Every submission to the encyclopedia is carefully reviewed by our editorial team, making sure only the highest quality content is published to our site. Our publication follows academic standards, but it is written in an easy-to-read manner with students and the general public in mind.
There are also audio versions for all articles (very beneficial for students with learning difficulties) and we also publish videos and podcasts… all for free.
We have no agenda or political affiliation: Our mission is to engage people with cultural heritage and improve history education worldwide.
Founded in 2009 under the name Ancient History Encyclopedia, until it changed its name to the World History Encyclopedia in 2021.
Who it’s for: all students and academics, especially those interested in or studying history, or need a historical context for their assignments.
How to access this database:
A-Z Databases: W (avondale.edu.au)
Select: World History Encyclopedia
Examples of available content:
Special features:
What it is:
Taylor & Francis Online provides access to millions of quality, peer-reviewed journal articles published under the Taylor & Francis and Routledge imprints spanning Humanities and Social Sciences, Science and Technology, Engineering, Medicine and Healthcare.
Taylor & Francis is one of the world’s largest publishers of open access research. We publish over 180 high-quality full open access journals, ranging across disciplines and subject areas.
Who it’s for: Arts, Business, Education, Health and Social Care and the Social Sciences.
How to access it:
A-Z Databases: T (avondale.edu.au)
Select Taylor & Francis Social Science and Humanities Library
Special features:
The People Also Read feature is available on the right hand side of the article page, and it allows you to find popular articles that your peers are already reading that may be of interest to you.
The ‘Google Translate‘ button enables you to explore articles in your chosen language. Select the relevant language from the dropdown list on article pages.
The DataCite link has been added to article abstracts. Where an author has deposited data to a repository supported by DataCite, a link to the data will appear under the article abstract, and where an author has deposited data to multiple repositories, links to all repositories will appear in a pop-up.
Authors are increasingly opting to submit their supporting data to a repository, and in many cases they’re required to do so as a condition of their funding. We’ve now made that data more accessible through bi-directional linking that takes users from the article to the related data and back again.
JSTOR has resolved the issues being experienced with links showing a 404 error page. You should be able to access JSTOR resources now.
Introducing Avondale’s Assignment Calculator! Simply enter the date your assignment is due and allow the calculator to break down the task into easy steps for you. Each step gives you a suggested breakdown of tasks to help make research, planning and writing more manageable. Find the Assignment Calculator here or on your subject LibGuide.
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