Being able to undertake effective literature searches is an important part of your dissertation or final year project. Knowing the strategies and tools with which to perform thorough searches to identify existing research and information about your chosen topic, allows you to connect your work to wider scholarly knowledge, demonstrate your understanding and put any research you have done in a wider context. This is a recording of a live session for students in the College of Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences(CAHSS) which looks at developing a search strategy, the resources available to you at the Library to search the literature and managing your search results.
A PDF version of the slides can be downloaded from Attachments tab above.

- Introduction
- Search strategy (02:36)
- Your research question (03:21)
- Keywords (04:20)
- Where to search? (05:43)
- Better searching - Boolean operators (10:04)
- Improving your search results (11:49)
- Managing your results (20:14)
- What to do if the Library doesn't have what you need? (23:37)
- Further useful resources (28:49)
- Where to get help (31:21)