Research Methods Effective Literature Searching 1 The Research

Research Methods: Effective Literature Searching 1. The Research Cycle 3. Ocean of Information 4. Managing your results 5. Ongoing support + information in Moodle greta. friggens@port. ac. uk

The research cycle A considered and organised search to find key literature on a topic. Refine your search Define your search question Identify keywords, phrases etc. Save your results Identify resources to search

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Ocean of information: Diving deeper into academic research Personal Communications, e. g. letters, emails Magazines Social Media Newspapers Websites Audio-Visual Information Reference Sources e. g. dictionaries, encyclopedias Trade & Professional Journal Articles Textbooks Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles Conference Papers Underwater Scenery by Rafae|. Licensed by CC BY 2. 0

Managing your searches and search results Look out for any personal sign-in options

Linking out from Discovery to other resources Newspaper archives Television and radio programmes Technical academic sources Academic sources such as journal articles Newspaper and trade information Dictionary Journal articles & archives Times newspaper archive Law Medicine

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Some resources to try….

Don’t let access be a problem… Set your home PC to access Uo. P resources via VPN Use the inter-library loan service Visit other University Libraries with SCONUL Access Or even specialist libraries and archives, e. g. BFI Reuben Library

Referencing essentials: Referencing@Portsmouth

Communicating your research in APA style In-text citation Refer to the sources in the text using the author’s last name, date of the publication and page number, if appropriate. When you paraphrase information from a source you should cite the reference in the text. If you don’t want to mention the author’s name in the text this is how you do it, but not in bold (Smith, 2009, p. 33). I’ve used bold for illustration purposes only. Use this format after a direct quotation too. If you want to mention the author’s name in the text then you cite the source like this Jones (2013) says that. . . Bibliographic Reference List Provide sufficient information so that your reader can recover the source you have used. Arrange in alphabetical order. Jones, P. (2013). Referencing a website in the APA style. Retrieved from http: //www. jonesapastyle. com Smith, R. (2009). Referencing a book in the APA style. Portsmouth: Pompey Press.

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