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Managing Information for Research: Managing research

This guide will highlight strategies to finding, retrieving and evaluation resources

Description

This page provides links to the handouts and the schedule of training facilitated by Dr. Shamin Renwick (Senior Librarian I)

Assistance with Writing

Elements of Style - William Strunk Jr

Dr. Shamin Renwick

Contact:

Senior Librarian I

Alma Jordan Library, UWI, St. Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago

E-Mail: shamin.renwick@sta.uwi.edu

+1-868-662-2002 ext 82261

Handouts

Critique of a Research Article
Document provides criteria to assess reseach articles
UWI St. Augustine Thesis Guide 2015
This is the Thesis guide used on the UWI St. Augustine campus for formatting theses.
Literature Review
This document describes how to do a literature review for a research paper or thesis.
Guidelines for Manuscript-based Theses
This document provides guidance on doing manuscript / journal type theses.
Evaluation of Websites
Document describes the steps in evaluating websites
Searching databases and the Web
Document includes strategies for better searching of the electronic information sources
Free e-resources
List of freely available databases and other e-resources
Keeping Up-To-Date
List of discovery tools on the Web to keep you up-to-date with your topic of research

Referencing

Citing and Referencing at UWI St. Augustine

Referencing with Chicago Manual of Style 17th ed (Author-Date Format)

Referencing with Chicago Manual of Style 16th ed (Author-Date Format)

Referencing with ACS (American Chemical Society) Style [used by the Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science and Technology, UWI]

Using the Alma Jordan Library

Using the SEARCH ALL feature in UWILinc- video

Circulation & Access Services
by Georgia Alexander Last Updated Sep 20, 2019 322 views this year
Databases A-Z (STA)
by Arlene Dolabaille Last Updated Jun 30, 2020 2898 views this year
UWIlinC
by Tamara Brathwaite Last Updated Dec 8, 2015 622 views this year
UWISpace - The University of the West Indies Institutional Repository
by Frank Soodeen Last Updated Apr 20, 2020 282 views this year
eBooks@The UWI, St. Augustine
by Arlene Dolabaille Last Updated Jun 30, 2020 5744 views this year

Conducting and Documenting Research

HOW TO AVOID PLAGIARISM
by Karlene Robinson Last Updated Jan 7, 2016 55 views this year

Guide to the Research Process
by Lynda Quamina-Aiyejina Last Updated Oct 17, 2019 971 views this year
The Literature Review
by Lynda Quamina-Aiyejina Last Updated Oct 22, 2019 11736 views this year
Research Ethics
by Tamara Brathwaite Last Updated Sep 2, 2015 437 views this year
Citation Analysis, simplified - measuring your research impact
by Niala Dwarika-Bhagat Last Updated May 16, 2020 113 views this year