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Animal Science: Animal Science 474

This guide is intended to help students studying animal science with basic library skills and how to use information resources

Training Evaluation

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Reading journal articles

Literature Review Synthesis Table
This excel template of a literature synthesis table helps you to analyse and manage your literature.

Reading Scholarly Works
This tab of your libguide gives you some useful guidance on how to analyse and read articles.

Analyzing a journal article
Worksheet and guidelines for analysing a journal article in depth

Youtube videos

Need a refresher of some of today's content? Have a look at some of the how to videos that are available on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcVw70ECrEqavFBBra9rc7w

Training slides

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Reference managers

You can choose between EndNote, Zotero and Mendeley as a reference management tool.

The library supports EndNote and runs workshops throughout the year about it.
- Consult the EndNote guide here: https://libguides.sun.ac.za/EndNote
Individual support is given to Zotero and Mendeley.
- Zotero can be downloaded here: https://www.zotero.org
- Consult the library's Mendeley guide!