This session will help you to develop your advanced searching skills to support your research. You will learn how to select databases and other information sources for your search needs, work with advanced search functions and search management techniques, and adapt these for your own purposes. You will also learn how to search comprehensively to situate your project in the existing literature, and how to locate hard-to-find material.

Some of the key skills we will cover are how to:

• frame your information need as a search strategy
• identify suitable search terms
• select databases and other information sources
• apply powerful search functions
• manage your search results and stay current with the literature
• find theses
• keep track of your search processes.

The workshop will be useful for all HDR students from any discipline area. The workshop will be recorded, with the recording sent out to registrants after the session.

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