1. Tools to use when you write your Master Thesis
Annika Nilsson
Physics- and Astronomy Library

2. Source: http://projectimplicit.net/nosek/interests.htm

3. Support from the Physics and Astronomy Library
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4. Search, find and evaluated scientific information about your subject

5. Different search tools
Local LU search tools
LUBcat
LUBsearch
Serch tools not restricted to LU-material
Libris
Databases (Web of Science, Inspec, Scopus, arXiv.org)
Search engines (Duckduckgo, Google)

6. Search strategy
To creat a strategy is essential for successful search results.
Keywords and controlled language
Boolean searching
Search techniques to use in different databases

7. Write your Thesis Follow academic integrity and Cite correctly
Choose one Reference Style - APS, Vancouver or Harvard? Ask your supervisor
Consider using a citation management software such as BibTeX, EndNote, Refworks, Mendeley, or Zotero
Don’t forget to specify the origin of your figures/images
Collect and manage your references when you start working with your thesis!

8. Urkund
Lund University uses the program Urkund in order to prevent and detect cases of plagiarism. Urkund compares student papers with other texts from three central source types – the Internet, printed material and its own archive.

9. Urkund Send your Thesis to your supervisors Urkund-mail
Important that you get the adress from your supervisor!

10. LUP-SP Upload your Thesis in LUP-SP. https://lup.lub.lu.se/luur/
Full Thesis under Main document
Popular abstract under Related Materials

11. Guide for Students at Advanced Level

12. Workshop Attend to one of the workshops : Dates: 2/10 or 3/10 or 5/10
Time: 13-15
The computer room – Lyran, Astronomy building
Information about the groups by a week before the workshop
Contact:

13. Preparation for the workshop
Find keywords in your subject – think wide and narrow
Choose your reference style – ask your supervisor
A workshop to spend time with the writing and citing part of the thesis work.