[archived] Best Practice for Literature Searching (3 Feb)

To do a thorough literature search on your topic, you need to develop a great search strategy. Learn how a systematic search strategy can help you more efficiently find resources on your topic. 

What will you learn? 

This hands-on workshop will show you how to: 

• Be methodical, organised and systematic in your literature searching, 
• Break down your research topic into key concepts, 
• Turn your key concepts into search terms and alternative terms (synonyms) 
• Develop your search strategy using Boolean operators, 

• Use key databases to locate journal articles on your topic, 
• Modify your search strategy when things don’t go according to plan, 
• Save your searches, 
• Locate highly cited articles in your research area, 
• Request resources using InterLibrary Loans. 

Audience 

This session is intended for UTS staff and postgraduate researchers only.