[archived] Best Practice for Literature Searching

To do a thorough literature search on your topic, you need to develop a great search strategy. Learn how a systematic search strategy can help you more efficiently find resources on your topic. 

What will you learn? 

This workshop will show you how to: 

• Be methodical and organised in your literature searching, 
• Break down your research topic into key concepts, 
• Turn your key concepts into search terms and alternative terms (synonyms) 
• Develop your search strategy using Boolean operators, 
• Use key databases to locate journal articles on your topic, 
• Modify your search strategy when things don’t go according to plan, 
• Save your searches, 
• Locate highly cited articles in your research area, 
• Request resources using InterLibrary Loans. 

Audience 

This session is intended for UTS staff and postgraduate researchers only. 

If you are interested in learning systematic searching skills for systematic and scoping reviews, please refer to our upcoming workshops on systematic searching.

This session will be held online via Zoom.