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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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UNCOVER Workshop: building searches in different databases

This workshop includes presentation and discussion. In the presentation, we cover: the two main types of search structures (set searching and paragraph searching) and how to decide…

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How to use the Library for your dissertation (Dissertation and Thesis Festival Oct 2023)

Just starting the process of using the Library for your dissertation research? This session will help you to discover and find the digital resources available via the Library, get your hands on the…

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ProQuest resources for Race and Decolonial Studies (Dissertation and Thesis Festival)

Ali Nazari-Nouri, Customer Education Trainer from ProQuest, part of Clarivate, delivers a presentation that demonstrates how you can effectively and efficiently search the ProQuest and Alexander…

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Advanced Skills: Developing a Research Strategy (October 2023)

This session gives an overview of things to consider when undertaking a search, where to look for material, advanced search techniques and where to find help. This is a recording of a live session…

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Literature searching for Philosophy (MSc Philosophy online)

A presentation on how to develop effective search strategies and introduction to online resources for Philosophy. For online postgraduate students in the School of Philosophy, Psychology &…

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Searching and reviewing the literature 2: Academic literature databases

Recorded for Health in Social Science's course Research in Health (online). Part 2 of 2. Slides…

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Searching and reviewing the literature 1: Search techniques and preparation

Recorded for Health in Social Science's course Research in Health (online). Part 1 of 2. Slides…

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Literature Searching (Historical Research: Skills & Sources)

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…

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UNCOVER workshop: Critical appraisal of search histories

This recorded presentation highlights several core elements to scrutinise when checking systematic review searches for quality.The elements covered are mostly drawn from the PRESS checklist: …

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Literature Search Session with Marshall Dozier_recording 2 Second Half of the session

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Literature Search Session with Marshall Dozier First half of the session

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Searching for literature: HSMII

This is an introductory session on literature searching for students on the Historical Skills and Methods II course (January 2023). A PDF version of the slides can be downloaded from the Attachments…

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Introduction to SAGE Research Methods (Dissertation Festival)

This is a recording of an online presentation, delivered on 3rd November 2022 as part of the Library's Dissertation Festival. The session was presented by Claire Deakin (SAGE Library Training…

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Annotated bibliography and literature searching_2022

This session was presented at the English Literature 4th year dissertation workshop. It looks at the main features of an annotated bibliography and the process of writing it. It also introduces…

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MSc in Digital Education - Finding information for study and research (October 2022)

The overall aim of this presentation is to look at some of the resources available from the Library to help you find information for literature reviews, focusing specifically on databases and sources…

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