Material Type
Textbook
Description
This open textbook accompanies the University of Missouri-St. Louis class INTDSC 1010: Research and the Information Landscape. Intended for undergraduates new to academic research, the course covers practical search and evaluation skills as well as a basic introduction to the world of scholarly communication. In Fall 2025, the course’s learning objectives were:
- Evaluate whether a source is appropriate for college-level research.
- Navigate library search tools to find relevant results and improve research efficiency.
- Analyze the goals and limitations of non-library tools in the research landscape.
- Explain the basic history and current broad practices of scholarly communication.
- Contribute to a small-scale version of the “scholarly conversation.”
A web version of this text can be found at
https://umsystem.pressbooks.pub/information/.
Media Format
eBook
Accessibility
Textual
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Sponsoring Institution / Retrieved from Organization
University of Missouri-St. Louis
OER Category
UMSL OER Created
Publication Date
Fall 12-15-2025
Recommended Citation
Wheeles, Libby and Marvin, Helena, "Research and the Information Landscape" (2025). Open Educational Resources Collection. 38.
Available at:
https://irl.umsl.edu/oer/38