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English: effective library research for dissertations

Online support to assist with planning and conducting your library dissertation research

Find: Which resources do I use?

Once you have decided what sort of research materials you want to work with, you can choose the best research tool to help you find that material. There are two Library Research tools that will help you find print and electronic primary and secondary materials:

 

1. Library Search

2. A-Z Databases

 

Explore the Which resources do I use? page for more information

Find: How to search

To get the best results from online search services you need to input effective searches. 

The databases are not intelligent and will not understand your search topic.  

You need to devise and enter your search in a way that the databases can process to retrieve relevant search results for you.

Explore the How to search page for more information

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