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SSPS_Getting started with literature searching
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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SSPS_ Selecting key discovery tools for social research
Matching discovery tools to information needs - identifying the best tools for your specific question.
How to find research handbooks, research monographs and textbooks
Finding journal articles
Types of journal article
Multidisciplinary databases
Subject-specific databases on the Proquest and EBSCO platforms
Key databases for social research
Types of content in sociology and social sciences databases
ASSIA, IBSS, Psycinfo, SocINDEX
EBSCO and Proquest search screens
Newspapers and news services
Finding grey literature
Advanced Google searching
Google Scholar settings
Getting material outside of the library collection
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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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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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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 Social and Political Science 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: | 18 Oct 2022 14:43 |
Tags: | Dissertation research, Searching, Search strategy, Search operators, Search queries, Search syntax, Search strings, Databases, Google, Google Scholar, Evaluating information, Critical appraisal, Secondary data |
Viewing permissions: | University |
URL: | https://edshare.gla.ac.uk/id/eprint/1458 |
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