High school students

• Develop your research and information skills
• Resources to help you research, reference and write
• Use QUT Libraries
• Read and borrow books, and more

Develop your research and information skills

Research Right is an online, self-paced interactive resource designed to help you navigate our current complex information landscape at school, work, and even in your personal life. Research Right can be read in full or part based on what you need.

Research Right teaches you how to:

• prepare your search, based on your research question
• create a search strategy to find resources for your topic
• know which sources to use that best match your research needs
• find good places to search and keep track of what you find.

For university-specific research skills, you can use Study Smart. Study Smart is an online, self-paced course designed to help you develop the research skills needed for undergraduate university studies. Work through all four modules, or just the one you need now.

Resources to help you research, reference and write

Start your research with our getting started guides, containing links to relevant databases and websites on a broad range of topics. Then, get your referencing and writing right with QUT cite|write, the student guide to citing and referencing at QUT that also contains helpful tips for effective academic writing.

Use QUT Libraries

We have three branch libraries and you are welcome to visit and study in any of them. If you need help, ask a staff member at HiQ (at Gardens Point or Kelvin Grove Libraries) or at the Law Library Helpdesk.

Read and borrow books, and more

Borrowing memberships are available to Queensland high school students (years 10 to 12).

To find books, DVDs and other items in the Library's physical collections that you can borrow or use in the Library, use our tailored "community search". Not sure how to use the Library Search? Check out our tips and guides on how to use it effectively.