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Welcome to NetTrail, the University of California Santa Cruz's Information Literacy Tutorials!

Here you will discover how to find, evaluate and use information effectively and ethically. Taking NetTrail is a great way to learn skills that will help you succeed in your academic pursuits.

NetTrail contains six trails. You can follow the trails in sequence, or you can skip around if you like:

Types of Info — an introduction to various types of information sources
Choosing a Topic — broadening and narrowing a topic and discusses search concepts
Library & Web — looks at the comparative evaluation of Web sources
CRUZCAT — how to use the Library catalog effectively
Find Articles — what is an article database and how to use it to find scholarly articles
Info Ethics — why and how to use citations, and covers the topic of plagiarism

Quiz — After you reach the end of the trail, take the Quiz to test your knowledge!

To start:

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Click on the Types of Info trail marker to the left.

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