Literature Searching: Crafting your strategy - 16 September 2025

Stuck on starting your literature review or database search? Learn how to transform your research topic into a focused research question and to start crafting an effective search strategy.

This workshop will cover:

• Refining your research topic through background searches, using Boolean operators
• Run a basic search in key databases like Scopus and Google Scholar
• Keeping track of your search journey using documentation
• Ways to locate key papers

This workshop has been designed to complement Literature Searching: Executing your Strategy which will cover advanced search techniques.

Audience:

Any postgraduate researchers and UTS staff.

This workshop will be delivered online via Zoom. Participants can attend the workshop in real time or access the recording at their convenience.

This session is facilitated by UTS Library.

Find out more about how UTS Library supports researchers.