Author: Amy Edwards

• Need help finding education journal articles? Session for School of Education students
• Thursday 24 April
• 5pm-6pm​
• Online – Join the meeting now

T​his session will focus on advanced search strategies using the Education databases. It will enable you to find relevant journal articles for your assignments. 
It is also an opportunity for you to pop along with any library related questions that you might have.

​Any questions please contact Eva Seddon e.seddon@chester.ac.uk​

• Advanced session using EndNote 21
• Tuesday 15 April
• 2pm-3pm
• Online – Join the meeting now​
  

This session is aimed at staff and students who have already attended an introduction session. It aims to help you personalise your EndNote library further by:

• Creating groups to organise your references, use PDF notes and keyword searching
• Import extra styles and adapt templates 
• Import references from wider sources not compatible with EndNote via direct export – eg. Google Scholar    

​Any questions please contact endnote@chester.ac.uk

• Dissertation literature: where do I begin?
• Thursday 10 April
• 10am-11am​
• ​Online – Join the meeting now

Are you starting your literature review and don’t know where to start?
This session is aimed at final year undergraudate and postgraduate students and will help you to plan your searches and use time saving search techniques to find the most relevant academic sources. Learn how to use subject specific databases to find high quality academic journals and research papers.

This session will enable you to:

• Develop an awareness of different search techniques
• Discover some subject specific resources​​

​Any questions please contact Caitlyn Hallman-Lewis ​c.hallmanlewis@chester.ac.uk

• Using EndNote 21 – Are you tired of wrestling with your citations?​​
• Wednesday 9 April
• 10am-11am
• Online – Join the meeting now

This session looks at practical ways to use EndNote 21 to help organise and manage your research references. We will focus on why use an EndNote library to collect, save and organise your references and any associated research notes or full text papers together. Then we will use the Cite While You Write feature to insert, edit and format your references as you work.

​Any questions please contact endnote@chester.ac.uk​

• ​Literature searching for your systematic review
• Monday 7 April
• 3pm-4pm
• Online – ​​​Join the meeting now

A​​ considered, replicable, transparent literature search forms the basis of a systematic review. Learn how to plan and construct an effective literature search, gain advice on where to look for the most relevant literature for your discipline, and suggestions for documenting your search and search results. 

​​​This session will enable you to: 

• ​​Think strategically and critically about your literature search 
• Create a search strategy for a systematic literature search 
• Identify key relevant resources for your search 
• Apply advanced search techniques and retrieve relevant literature ​

​Any questions please contact Debbie Spencer d.spencer@chester.ac.uk

• Finding resources on Library Search and you e-libraries
• Monday 7 April
• 11.30am-12pm
• Online – Join the mee​ting now

Join this session to learn how to find e-books, print books and journal articles through the University’s Library Search database. Module e-libraries will also be highlighted, including how to l​​ocate subject e-journals and database links.  

This se​​​ssion is a must for learning the basics of searching for academic information and will also highlight techniques such as saved searches and citation tools.