How To Do A Literature Search

Prerequisites

Are you about to embark on a dissertation, thesis, or piece of extended research? Before you can contribute to the academic dialogue, you need to have a sound grasp of your topic and its context. This session will give you strategies for finding and evaluating published literature so you can get a 'big picture' view of your topic.

• Final-year undergraduates
• Postgraduates
• Researchers

• Familiarity with online resources, including the Newton catalogue and ordinary search engines
• You should in the early stages of, or about to embark on, a work of sustained research

• To find quality academic sources for your research
• To learn powerful searching strategies and techniques

Presentations, demonstrations and practicals

• Session slides
• Resource list
• Literature search grid
• Planning your literature search (external link from Robert Gordon University)

One session of one hour and a half

A number of times per term

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