Information resources
Information, data and media literacy

CCDigitalLaw is a comprehensive knowledge database on copyright, privacy and data protection in digital environments, with a strong focus on the Swiss legal context.

What is information, data and media literacy, and why does it matter? This self-learning course provides basic guidance on dealing with information from the internet, with a special focus on plagiarism.

The «Transferable Skills» program offers PhD students many training opportunities on information, media, and data literacy, with topics such as citation and plagiarism, data visualization, and data management.

To strengthen one's data literacy skills, the University of Basel offers many short courses on data analysis and statistics, with a focus on the R programming language.

The University Library offers, both in presence and online, many training opportunities and courses on information literacy, including search methods and literature management.

The Website «Research Data Management» provides researchers with guidance on where to find research data and where to publish their own.

The University Library offers various tools and services (including repositories and search engines) that are very useful to find and manage information and data.

In this talk on Vimeo, Prof. Gerhard Lauer from the Digital Humanities Lab at the University of Basel provides very valuable critical reflections on the topic of «Fake News» and the digital public sphere in general. (In German.)

In order to test one's skills in the area of information and media literacy, this “News Test” ist very useful. It was developed by several German public institutions, including the Federal Agency for Civic Education. (In German.)

The Berlin University of Applied Sciences offers a comprehensive online self-study resource on plagiarism and copyright (in German).

The University of Göttingen has several freely accessible self-study courses to improve one's skills in the area of information and media literacy.

The state of North Rhine-Westphalia has a useful media literacy framework. (In German.)

The CRAAP-Test is one of the standard guidelines for testing the reliability of information. It was originally developed by the Meriam Library at California State University.

This British organization offers practical guidance for those who are not yet familiar with the principles of information literacy. Among other things, useful information sheets (flyers) are available for download.

Swisscovery is the new portal of the Swiss university libraries to search their catalogues and access their digital resources.

BASE (Bielefeld Academic Search Engine) is a search engine offered by Bielefeld University for finding - and in many cases reading or downloading - academic publications.

The Higher Education Forum on Digitization offers a detailed report on data literacy (PDF) that includes useul definitions and recommendations.

Nando Stöcklin offers a definition of information and media literacy in this valuable essay published in MedienPädagogik (in German).