About this book
From Search to Source: Finding Reliable Information is designed to guide students through their studies at Southern Cross University (SCU). The content has been adapted from SCU’s web-modules StudyHub and RAISE. The web-modules have been updated with media-rich, interactive content and generative AI tips. Additional content has been adapted from:
- UniSkills, by Curtin University Library. © 2025 Curtin University licenced under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 licence (Chapter 2 Where to find information)
- Answering Clinical Questions, by The University of Western Australia. © 2025 The University of Western Australia, licenced under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial (CC BY-NC) 4.0 licence (Chapter 5 Levels of evidence and search frameworks)
- Study designs, by Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine. © 2025 University of Oxford licenced under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) 4.0 licence (additional image and table in Chapter 5 Levels of evidence and search frameworks)
- Library1600: Introduction to College-Level Research, by Iowa State University Library Instruction Services. © 2021 Iowa State University Library licenced under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 licence (Chapter 6 Advanced literature searching).
Attribution has been included to indicate the adapted content. While designed to align with the SCU model, the material will assist students in any tertiary education context.
Publisher information
From Search to Source: Finding Reliable information
Published in Australia by Council of Australasian University Libraries (CAUL) OER Collective
© Southern Cross University
First published 2025
Copyright information
Copyright in this work is vested in Southern Cross University. Unless otherwise stated, material in this work is licenced under a Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) licence.
From Search to Source: Finding Reliable Information
By Southern Cross University Library
Contributors: Talli Allen, Emily Munro, Cintamani Brown and Jenny Luethi
ISBN: 978-1-875855-03-2
DOI: https://doi.org/10.25918/text.495
