Enhance student success and engagement
AM Research Skills provides the practical tools students need to understand and interact with primary sources.
Offering crucial support for interdisciplinary classes, the learning resource can be used in classroom-based and online teaching to enhance student success, as well as for extended study.
Foundational information literacy approaches
Explore methods using relevant source material, develop foundational information literacy and enhanced critical thinking skills, and introduce concepts that underpin research in the arts, humanities and social sciences.
It sets [students] up for success. It is important new researchers practice the correct things. This platform really gives them the confidence that they are engaging in a sound research process from the beginning. It’s a supportive environment that complements formal teaching, but it’s also suited to independent learning as well.
Learning tools
Peer-reviewed essays, how-to guides and video interviews share the core principles and practices for understanding and using primary sources, from how to critically evaluate a source to using digital tools.
Case studies
Based on digitised sources, case studies demonstrate how to analyse, approach and interact with primary source material. Learn how subject experts work with specific types of sources.
Practice sources
Drawn from AM’s archival partners across the globe, hundreds of historical materials enable students to put their primary source literacy skills into practice.
Data sets
These present example cases for working with data in history from the presentation of a data set to understanding how to interrogate, interpret and use the data within.