Literature Searching: A Guide for Undergraduates

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This course is based on a typical literature review lifecycle. You start by planning your search. You then carrying out your search. Once you've found some results, you evaluate what you have found to see if it is relevant to your needs. You manage your results by saving them to a suitable place so you can come back to them. If you are interested in tracking changes in your field, you enact approaches to keep up to date with new research. And as your research evolves, you refine your search to reflect new concepts and new terms. And so the cycle continues.

While you may not be as focused on the longer term tracking of new research in your field, being able to plan, search, evaluate and manage effectively are key skills which we will cover in this course. The course will be structured around these first four stages, with optional additional information about the last two stages for those who are interested.

Undergraduate students working towards a research project or dissertation

Videos, interactive content and handouts hosted in Moodle

https://www.vle.cam.ac.uk/course/view.php?id=221892

• Biological Sciences: Going further with your literature searching for your dissertation or project (Part II)
• Medicine: Introduction to Literature Searching (for University)
• Biological Sciences: Developing your literature review - finding the literature