Research guides work best when you include only the most relevant information in a clear and organized way. Your reader will be experiencing the guide as they would other types of web pages: skimming for the information they need. Clear organization can allow users to drop in at the point they are interested and find what they need quickly and efficiently.
Content should be to-the-point and easy to read, beginning with the most important resources or the first steps in a process. Take some time to plan out the overall structure of your guide before you start adding content in LibGuides.
Each guide should contain:
Liaison profile - This is automatically included in the template
Description - Two sentence introduction to the guide
Get started - This is the default page/tab and may be the only place many users visit. So make it count! Include:
●Databases - Key databases/search tools for the field
●Journals (optional) - Key journals in the field and/or link to ejournal list by subject)
Other possible tabs:
●Find books
●Find newspapers
●Find primary sources
●Find statistics
●Find datasets
●Find images
