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Information Services and Systems Do you know what your topic will be for your dissertation? 1.Yes, definitely 2.Maybe / almost 3.No

Information Services and Systems “The dissertation will enable you to develop an original piece of work which demonstrates up-to-date and focused knowledge about a particular policy issue. Part of your work will involve identifying this issue or problem, formulating questions about it, and providing coherent and well argued answers to them, by using reliable sources of evidence, correctly and appropriately sourced. “ (ASP300 handbook, 2013) What is your dissertation...?

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Information Services and Systems How will you manage the stuff you find? Keep track of where you searched and what you searched for? Refine your search terms as you go? Save the results that you find? Store the PDFs of material that you use?

Information Services and Systems Using iFind Discover Read your assignment title a few times. Decide what it is that you need to look for. Write down keywords which describe what you need to find. Think about what filters you need to apply (language, publication date, quality of information). Where are you going to look? How are you going to manage the stuff you find? Top tips for researching...

Information Services and Systems Using iFind Discover …I’m interested in finding research which looks at female prostitution in England and Wales Let’s do an example together...

Information Services and Systems Research Topic: female prostitution in England and Wales Concept 1Concept 2Concept 3

Information Services and Systems Research Topic: female prostitution in England and Wales Concept 1Concept 2Concept 3 FemaleProstitutionEngland/Wales

Information Services and Systems Research Topic: female prostitution in England and Wales Concept 1Concept 2Concept 3 Female*ProstitutionEngland WomanProstitut*Wales WomenSex work* Girl*

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Information Services and Systems Google ScholarGoogle ScholarIBSS iFindResearchiFindResearch PsycINFO Business Source Complete Reference lists PubMEDAsk an expert ASSIASpecific journals you know of (hand searching) Web of Knowledge Specific websites (eg: Welsh Government) Where are you going to search...

Information Services and Systems Have you had any problems accessing Swansea University electronic resources? 1.Yes 2.No

Information Services and Systems Free! Access via Library subscription Access via Library subscription Everything published on your topic Not everything will be available Full Text!

Information Services and Systems Use iFind Research as your starting point Available through myuni.swan.ac.uk myuni.swan.ac.uk Searches bibliographic databases for journal articles & more Easy to see Full Text results

Information Services and Systems What did you think? 1.Google Scholar was most useful 2.iFind Research / ASSIA was most useful 3.I struggled to find stuff with both

Information Services and Systems No Full Text Access – What can I do? Document Supply Services DALLAS Scheme timeanddistancestudents/ timeanddistancestudents/ Visiting other libraries Disclaimer! – We don’t have full-text access to everything...

Information Services and Systems The first step to doing a literature search is to define your topic & identify the key terms? 1. True 2.False

Information Services and Systems When creating your search strategy you need to think about… 1.Keywords 2.Synonyms 3.Limits 4.AND/OR/NOT 5.Truncation 6.All of the above

Information Services and Systems Which of these are valid methods for searching for evidence? 1.Online databases 2.Reference lists 3.Hand searching 4.Contacting authors 5.Internet 6.All of the above

Information Services and Systems Searching for Psycholog* will identify articles containing Psychology/Psychological/Psychologists etc? 1.Yes 2.No 3.Not sure

Information Services and Systems Using OR to connect keywords when searching will ensure that either term is selected? 1.Yes 2.No 3.Not sure

Information Services and Systems When doing a literature review searching once using one database is acceptable 1.True 2.False

Information Services and Systems Your Librarians Katrina, Marion, Clare, Stephen, Elen, Alison Your Librarians