Advanced Searching Skills

This will cover advanced literature searching, including how to conduct a detailed search with a variety of search strategies and how to identify key research papers in your area.

By the end of the tutorial, you will be able to:

• Use a variety of search strategies
• Identify various publication types and their uses
• Conduct cited reference searches using various sources
• Find a journal’s impact factor using Journal Citation Reports
• Use several factors to gauge an article’s relative importance and quality

Examples will be given in a variety of subject areas, to illustrate the principles and ideas presented.

The tutorial is divided into eight sections:

• Publication Types
• Keyword/Subject Searching
• Searching from Key Articles
• Following a Citation Trail
• Browsing
• Other Searching Techniques
• Identifying Key Authors
• Identifying Key Journals

Before going through the material in these sections, you should be familiar with the content in Basic Searching Skills.

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