Literature Searching: Crafting your strategy

Stuck on starting your literature review or database search? Learn how to transform your research topic into a focused research question and to start crafting an effective search strategy.

This workshop will cover:

• Refining your research topic through background searches, using Boolean operators
• Run a basic search in key databases like Scopus and Google Scholar
• Keeping track of your search journey using documentation
• Ways to locate key papers

This workshop has been designed to complement Literature Searching: Executing your Strategy which will cover advanced search techniques.

Audience:

Any postgraduate researchers and UTS staff.

This workshop will be delivered online via Zoom. Participants can attend the workshop in real time or access the recording at their convenience.

NOTE: HDR students and their supervisors should sign-up via ResearchFutures

This session is facilitated by UTS Library.
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