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Moira BentFaculty Liaison Librarian
Finding and managing information for your final year project
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You asked about….
How the Library’s changed LibrarySearch – what’s that? Building up complex searches Which resources? EndNote
We’ve changed…
The Robinson Library has changed…
Summarise, synthesise, critically evaluate
Identify gaps
Track key issues/debates/people
Inform your research Contextualise your work
Literature review – essential for projects
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It needs to be
thorough….
…but selective
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A search strategy can help you get started
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Keywords and phrases?What kind of info?
Which databases?
Check keywords and revise
Did you find what you need?Which are the best?
In print?Online?Inter Library Loan?
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Mindmapping
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Use search techniques
Use a phrase
• “environmental policy”
Use AND, OR and NOT to make logical connections
• conservation AND land• (Regeneration OR redevelopment) AND (UK OR Great Britain OR
England)
Use truncation
• Conserv* finds conserve, conservation, conserving (and also conservatory!)
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Building up a search
UK OR GB OR England
Polic* OR legislation
Redevelopment OR Expansion
OR regeneration
Resources to help
you
Books: print and
electronic
Journal articles and conference
papers
Official information
Social media and
news
Company information
Full and mo
Library Search is a good place to start
Includes data from the library catalogue and a range of electronic resources
Full & mobile views
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Use Library Search
To find printed books in the Library To find electronic books To get a general overview of a topic To find a few journal references for an
essay
DON’T rely on Library Search as the only source for your literature review – not all our resources are included.
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Library Search is easy!Why use specific databases?
CAB and Scopus – journal articles Unique content not covered by Library
Search Index of search terms
Lexis for newspapers Environment online for official
documents
To download results to EndNote
Use your Library Guide to identify key resources:libguides.ncl.ac.uk/environment
Maybe you’re looking in the wrong place altogether?
Or perhaps it doesn’t exist at
all?
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Reserve
• For books on loan• Place a “hold” on books which are on loan• Borrow when book is returned
Request
• For articles and conferences we don’t have• Apply for an Inter Library Loan• 25 requests @ £1.50
Recomme
nd
• New books to buy• ‘Books on Time' service to recommend
new books for the library to buy