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Postgraduate Research Guide: Effective information management

This guide is to support postgraduate researchers.

Introduction

This page contains videos outlining some tools and techniques that can help speed up your search for academic information and organise the information that you find. There are also videos related to copyright and your thesis. 

Accompanying hand-out

Effective information management for PhD research videos

Introduction


Different literature searching activities


Strategies for finding information


Discovery resources - which resource for which purpose


Academic databases and generalist search engines


Advanced techniques


Web services for staying up-to-date


Researcher training sessions

The Library has put together a programme of sessions for researchers running throughout the academic year. Sessions cover a range of topics and would be useful for PhD students as well as more established researchers.

Researcher KnowHow 2017/2018 programme
Booking is now open for this year's Researcher KnowHow programme. Click on the links below to reserve your place.

Further support

For further help and guidance, contact your Liaison Librarian. 

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