Author: Caitlin Armitage-Conway

This session will show you how to find e-books within Library Search and utilise the accessibility features within them to enhance your digital reading and research. An academic Skills Adviser will then highlight the differences between the purpose of skimming and scanning e-books (and other online sources) to improve your screen reading skills and saving you valuable research time.

Your dissertation relies on you finding, reading and critically analysing quality academic resources. This session will help you sift through the infinite amount of information available to identify the most reliable sources. It will help you be confident that you are using good, quality academic information.

How to find and evaluate Grey Literature before using in your work. Covering the wide range of grey literature produced outside traditional publishing, from government to industry sources, from emerging, niche research areas. Suitable for anyone interested in widening the scope of their sources to support their research.

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
• Apply advanced search techniques and retrieve relevant literature