Resources
We have collected links to some of our favourite academic resources.
Study skills
Critical Skills has a youtube channel with some practical tutorials relating to bibliographies, using Office 365, and other topics:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJDbacnn1LV101HQ8GV9v7g
Maynooth University Library has a suite of excellent tutorials:
http://nuim.libguides.com/list-online
For writing, the Online Writing Lab (OWL) at Purdue University is our go-to resource:
https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/
Dartmouth College has some excellent resources relating to time management:
http://www.dartmouth.edu/~acskills/success/time.html
Research
In addition to the resources available from the Maynooth University Library we find the resources below to be useful.
The three institutions below provide hundreds of thousands of public domain digitized images. These include famous works of art, photographs, maps, and many other types of images.
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
http://www.metmuseum.org/about-the-met/policies-and-documents/image-resources
New York Public Library
https://www.nypl.org/research/collections/digital-collections/public-domain
United States Library of Congress
http://www.loc.gov/pictures/
Two useful sources for research on topics relating to Ireland are the Central Statistics Office and the Economic and Social Research Institute:
Central Statistics Office, Ireland
http://www.cso.ie/en/index.html
The Economic and Social Research Institute
http://www.esri.ie/
Critical Skills
ToggleCritical Skills YouTube Channel
Critical Skills have a YouTube Channel where we post videos that will aid you in your transition to third level and help you to navigate some of the technological issues that you may need to overcome throughout your first year in Critical Skills.
Here is some of our tutorial like videos you may find helpful:
Uploading an assignment to Turnitin
Accessing Turnitin Audio Feedback
Using Sharepoint for team projects