Know Moore About: Building an Effective Search Strategy

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You have your research topic and access to millions of resources – but how do you find relevant material? This session will help you turn your research idea into a comprehensive search strategy designed to get maximum results. It will cover creating targeted keywords, filtering results, evaluating materials and recording your methods to save you time throughout your project.

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• Researchers and staff in the Physical Sciences.
• Other staff and students welcome.

Number of sessions: 1

At the end of this session learners will be able to:

• Identify appropriate search terms to find results within the scope of their project.
• Design a targeted strategy to obtain relevant results from a range of sources.
• Use advanced search techniques such as Boolean, truncation and phrase searching to carry out efficient searches.
• Evaluate search results to determine how useful they are to the current information need.