Training | Information Resources and Search Strategies

Do you know which sources of information are most suitable for your academic project?

The search for credible information is the foundation of any research project, allowing you to know the contributions of other researchers in real time and at a global level.

To make the most of your search and save time, you have to plan, define the best strategies and techniques to use.

Contents

• Categories of information sources according to the degree of originality
• Subscribed resources versus open access resources
• Types of documents
• Types of databases
• What are we going to search – define the concept/research question
• How are we going to search: Choose terms; Structuring search expressions; Outline search strategies

Search techniques: Boolean operators / Truncations / limits / Quotes and parentheses / Stop words

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