Welcome to the Information Literacy Master Thesis Guide!

Welcome to the Information Literacy Master Thesis Guide!#

This guide was created to be used as a reference for all the information skills you need during your master thesis process.

The guide has two goals:

  • Recapping basic information skills you will have learned during your bachelor (for TU Delft bachelor students; as part of the Information Literacy 1 and Information Literacy 2 courses)

  • Providing basic information, and templates specific for master-level information skills (i.e. advanced searching & source evaluation, synthesizing, exploring academic literature, publishing)

This guide is not meant to provide highly detailed information, but provides basic strategies to get started and things to be aware of when working with information during your thesis journey. While basic information skills needed will be the same for any master program, specific details are program-dependent and should be discussed with your thesis supervisor.

This is a pilot version still under development.

For questions or feedback, please contact the project leader Lisanne Walma via l.w.b.walma@tudelft.nl.

We also invite you to fill out our feedback survey or use the GitHub button on top to open issues or suggest specific edits for a specific page.

Authors and Acknowledgments#

This guide was created by the Education Support team from the TU Delft Library. The main author is Lisanne Walma. You can cite the reference as follows:

Walma, L. (2026). Information Literacy Master Thesis Guide. https://tu-delft-library.github.io/il-master-thesis-guide/dev/intro.html. Source files at tu-delft-library/il-master-thesis-guide. CC-BY-4.0.

This guide has been created based on input from lecturers at the TU Delft faculties of Aerospace (AE); Industrial Design Engineering (IDE); Electrical Engineering, Mathematics & Computer Science (EEMCS) and Mechanical Engineering (ME). We would like to thank all the lecturers who made time to be interviewed on their views on information skills for master students and educational needs.

We would like to thank in particular the lecturers from AE, IDE and the students from Spice for their support in co-creating the pilot version of the guide.