About Course
Learn how to search for and find academic literature in databases.
Are you tired of spending hours searching for relevant academic literature for your research projects without finding quality articles? This Optimizing Your Academic Literature Searches training is designed to help you streamline your search process and find the most valuable resources efficiently.
About this training
This training deals specifically with how to find academic literature to use in your literature review or to support your research arguments. Finding quality literature to incorporate in your literature review, to write your introduction and background and to support your problem statement or findings is a crucial skill all scholars need to succeed in their academic pursuits. This is the first step to writing your literature review chapter.
Whether you wish to save time, learn a new skill or just want to improve the quality of your academic work, you will benefit from this training.
Outline of the content
We have developed this training to help you every step of the way. In this guided training you will access material and video tutorials that will show you exactly what to do to find quality academic literature. In this training you will learn how to:
- Develop keywords for your searches
- Identify the databases you need to search in
- Use advanced search techniques, databases, and search engines to access high-quality academic articles, journals, and publications.
- Discover tips and tricks for refining your search queries.
By the end of this training, you will have the skills and knowledge to optimize your academic literature searches effectively, saving you time and effort while enhancing the quality of your research projects.
Who should register?
This course is perfect for students of all levels who want to:
- Learn how to conduct academic literature searches in databases
- Develop key research skills
- Improve the quality of work they submit to their supervisors.
Whether you are just starting out or you are enrolled for a postgraduate degree- this training is for you.
