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Decolonising your dissertation exploring new critical and practical approaches to your library research (Dissertation and Thesis Festival)

This session will help you to think about how libraries have historically organised and acquired information and critically apply that knowledge to your information research choices. We’ll also…

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SIFTing the literature: Critically evaluating the reliability of sources (Dissertation and Thesis Festival Nov 2023)

Ever seen something shared on social media that you think just cannot be true? Or wondered how you can be more critical in the sources of information you use in an assignment? By the end of this…

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LibSmart : digital literacy skills for online library research

An introduction to the LibSmart information literacy online course, with descriptions and learning outcomes of the ten modules of the new LibSmart II course launched in September 2021. More…

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Using the Library for creative dissertations : digital resources in art, music and drama

Are you planning your dissertation in a creative subject? Find out more about the rich range of digital library resources available to you in the visual arts, music and drama. Led by the Academic…

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Searching DiscoverEd (PG Online SPS) Sept 2020- Session 2

This 10 minute video demonstrates some of the searching functionality in DiscoverEd. This is the second short video in a series of four aimed at introducing SPS Online students to the library…

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Searching Web of Science (PG Online SPS) Sept 2020- Session 3

This short video demonstrates a search in Web of Science. It is the third in a set of 4 looking at accessing library resources.

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Using the University Library (PG Online SPS) Sept 2020- Session 1

This presentation outlines the services that new online students in SPS have access to. It is the first of 4 sessions: Session 2- Using DiscoverEd Session 3- Searching Web of Science Session 4-…

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Why I am editing Wikipedia by Dr. Jess Wade at Women in STEM Connect

Talk by Dr. Jess Wade at the University of Edinburgh's Women in STEM Connect edit-a-thon on Sunday 16th August 2020.

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Teaching with Wikipedia - a practical 'how to' guide.

This online session is for any course leaders interested in learning more about Wikipedia Education assignments. The workshop showcases best practice derived from working with over a dozen…

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Search Techniques

A short video outlining some search techniques, including Boolean operators, phrase searching, truncation and wildcards.

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Literature Searching Session 2 (Social Anthropology)

This second session looks at how to apply a search in 2 databases. Also there is information on what to do if the library does not have what you need and other useful help and training resources.

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Literature Searching- Session 1 (Social Anthropology)

A short session looking at making a searchable question, forming a search strategy and some search techniques.

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Searching the Factiva Newspaper database (PG Online SPS) Sept 2020- Session 4

Short demonstration of search builder function in the Factiva News database.

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Literature searching: in practice - HCA (online)

A video postgraduate students in School of History, Classcis and Archaeology (HCA) demoing search techniques and tips for literature searching. A PDF version of slides used in presentation can be…

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Literature searching guidelines - HCA (online)

A video for postgraduate students in School of History, Classics and Archaeology (HCA) looking at guidelines for literature searching. A PDF version of the slides used can be downloaded from…

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Using the Simple Search in DiscoverEd

An introduction to using the simple search options in DiscoverEd

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