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Research skills and tips - From undergrads just starting out through to post graduate research. Covers things like keywords, search strings, and citation trails.

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This guide introduces you to search techniques that can be used in Library Search, individual databases, and Google Scholar.

Use the side-bar links to check out the tips you may not be so familiar with.

Start with "getting started" and see how much you already know, then follow the links to increase your research skills knowledge.

Under Search Strategies you will find tips for phrase searching, truncation, Boolean operators and more.

Under Search Strings there is a guide to take you through putting all the tips together to form successful

searches in your chosen field of study.

 

How we can help?

The Teaching and Learning Team are happy to help if you require further assistance in your research journey. We can help with sourcing different types of resources, from academic articles, to grey literature, to other forms of media.

Request an appointment face-to-face or online, inidividual or tutorial groups.