Being able to undertake effective literature searches is an important part of doing history. 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 video is for students on the Historical Research: Skills & Sources (online) and looks at developing a search strategy, the resources available to you at the Library to search the literature and managing your search results.
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- Introduction
- Search strategy (00:52)
- Your research question (01:43)
- Keywords (02:53)
- Where to search? (04:13)
- Better searching - Boolean operators (07:12)
- Improving your search results (08:42)
- Managing your results (15:27)
- Where to get help (17:51)
- Tags
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