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Teach students to use online literature

Many undergraduates have trouble finding, validating and using online scientific resources, particularly as they tend to be novices immersed in learning scientific procedure and what represents scientific literature. A teacher and a librarian established a partnership and developed a tutorial to help mitigate these problems in a senior-level plant sciences seminar. Their approach is reported in the Journal of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Education.

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