A quick guide to organising your data, covering file naming and folder structure.

This resource has been archived. See links in https://edshare.gla.ac.uk/444/ for current guidance.

Lecture recording and slides from 'Supervising systematic reviews'. This lecture introduces systematic reviews as a literature type and methodology, discusses protocols as a method of scoping a review and defining the feasibility of a review. The lecture then moves to search techniques and resources students should utilise for their reviews, and reporting standards to expect in a write-up. Further resources and self-help materials are highlighted. Part of Systematic Review collection of resources (https://edshare.gla.ac.uk/451/).

The following is general guidance on how to keep a paper-based laboratory (lab) notebook.

This is a short handout giving the details of various useful websites for film and tv archives and related resources.

This short guide will help you find out what the options are if you are trying to access an e book that the Library doesn't own.

How to search for eBooks using Library Search, the main Library search tool. It explains how the book search works on Library Search (what is searched). Provides guidance on searching for specific books; searching for books on a topic and searching for books by specific authors. Explains what information is included in book search results, including summaries and tables of contents. Provides guidance on how to create a book list in a reference format (e.g. Harvard).

This is an introduction to using keywords and controlled vocabulary for searching. It gives advice on how to generate relevant keywords - using your existing knowledge; from key textbooks, handbooks and research monographs and from published journal articles. It includes screenshots as examples. The guide introduces controlled vocabulary and its advantages in searching.

A guide to searching. Explains the main search operators to use for effective searching: Boolean operators AND, OR, NOT; phrase and proximity searching; truncation and wildcards. Introduces field searching and provides screenshots as examples. Gives advice on how to build a search using operators and keywords with examples. Provides advice on using citation networks (reference lists and citing literature) to find relevant material.

A video discussing the value of in-person viewing and handling of early editions of books/texts to complement modern critical editions and digitised early editions

The video looks at MS Hunter 217, Cassiodorus's Tripartite History of the Church, written in Germany in the late 12th century, as a case study. The video focusses not on the text but on the material and paratextual features of the manuscript itself and what these can tell us about earlier medieval book production and culture

This video looks at this printed, incunable, copy of De proprietatibus rerum as a case study. Rather than focussing on the text, the video discusses what the books material and paratextual features can tell us about late medieval book production and culture

A video discussing paper manufacture in late medieval and early modern Europe, and the material features of handmade paper useful in bibliography

This video examines the definition of the bibliographical term edition, impression, issue and state, with the use of real life examples to illustrate

A video discussing what the terms format, signature, and collational formula mean in bibliography, and how material and paratextual features of early-printed books can be used to determine a book's format and collation

A video discussing how early modern European books were printed, touching on the technology, the terminology, and the printed books themselves

A video discussing what to look for and think about when looking at an early-printed book for the first time. Based on an exercise conceived by Sarah Werner in "Studying early printed books 1450-1800: a practical guide"