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Education_getting started with literature searching
A guide for students doing a dissertation or research project. Guide includes information on:
-The literature review – how it contributes to planning your literature search/search strategy
- How searching works – how records are retrieved with different search techniques
- Generating search terms (keywords) - ways to identify relevant search terms
- Where to start…Library Search (and how it compares to Google Scholar)
- Some search examples – how to create a search string
- Useful features of Library Search – value added features to help with evaluating search results and finding related literature (research hacks to find papers)
- Locating previous dissertations
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Using Library Search
A guide on using Library Search, the main search tool on the Library homepage. The guide gives you information on what Library Search is, what information it indexes and how to use it effectively. You can use the contents pages to jump to the information you need, including searching, understanding search results and useful features like previews, citing literature and saving and exporting results.
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Effective searching: Boolean, search operators and complementary search techniques.
A guide to searching, including:
~ How searching works
~ Boolean operators
~ Phrase searching and proximity searching
~ Truncation and wildcards
~ Field searching – how to use it
~ Using controlled vocabulary and database thesauri
~ Complementary search techniques – citation searching
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Education - selecting key discovery tools for education research
A guide on key search tools and databases for education students doing dissertations or research projects. The guide includes information on:
~ finding textbooks, research handbooks and research monographs
~ finding journal articles
~when to use a search engine and when to use a database
~ multidisciplinary research databases (Scopus and Web of Science)
~subject-specific databases for education research
~overview of ERIC, BEI, Professional Development Collection
~searching for journals in the library collection
~Google - advanced searching
~Google Scholar settings
~getting material outside of the library collection
~links for EndNote software downloads and training guides
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Social science - finding and using secondary data
A guide for Social Science students on how to find and use secondary data. Information includes:
~Sources on doing secondary data analysis – case studies, videos and practice datasets
~Ethical considerations when using secondary data
~Guides on getting started using data from the UK Data Service
~Major national and international databanks and key open-source data
~Specialist collections of data (subscriptions available from the University of Glasgow) including data on countries, demographics, companies (including financials), consumers, markets and industries.
~Sources of data from published literature
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Critical appraisal tools for evaluating information sources
A short guide with links to appraisal tools for evaluating information sources for credibility, authority, bias and relevance.
~CRAAP Test (California State University)
~PROMPT Tool (Open University)
~CASP Checklists (Critical Appraisal Skills Programme, Oxford)
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Dissertation toolkit for education students
A collection of guides to support your dissertation research including getting started, effective search techniques, selecting the best databases and search tools, finding secondary data and evaluating sources for quality and relevance.
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Date Added: | 23 Nov 2021 19:53 |
Tags: | Dissertation research, Searching, Search strategy, Search operators, Search queries, Search strings, Databases, Google Scholar, Evaluating information, Critical appraisal, Secondary data |
Viewing permissions: | University |
URL: | https://edshare.gla.ac.uk/id/eprint/1377 |
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