~The literature review – how it contributes to planning your literature search/search strategy ~How searching works – how records are retrieved ~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 query ~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

A guide on where to search for the types of information you may use in your research, including: ~finding research handbooks, textbooks and monographs ~search engines and databases for finding journal literature in business research, including academic and practitioner articles ~finding high quality journal literature and links to citing papers and related literature (Scopus and Social Sciences Citation Index) ~Business databases for finding journal literature ~databases for business news and analysis ~databases for company information ~databases for economic and demographic data ~databases for market, industry and market research data ~databases for video, business cases and research methods ~specialist databases subscribed by the Business School ~finding grey literature (working papers) ~advanced searching on Google ~Google Scholar settings

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

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.

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

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)