Planning a search strategy for a business dissertation. Tips for the literature review.

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.

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.

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