RESEARCH SKILLS :

LITERATURE SEARCHING AND REFERENCE

MANAGEMENT

Dr. Nehal Almerbati

Lecture 1 – Part B 22/9/2022
 How to find published research information

Key sources and best starting points

This session
will include
Other practicalities

Opportunities for personal reflection and

exchange of experience on literature
searching process
 Review
Modify effectiveness
search Identify
topic

Review
results Map
subject
Run
search
Draw up
keywords
Select database
 Processes
Keys to effective searching
 Where you look
 UOB libraries
Resources
 Access to other
 Books (at UOB or outside)
libraries
 Journals (printed or electronic;  Shaik Isa, Awali and
at UOB or outside)
Quran house library
 Secondary databases  Management
 Reports  Interlibrary loans
 Master or PhD. Theses  Passwords
 Other online and social sources  Searching techniques
 Referencing
Looking for information

■ Brainstorm the keywords

■ Library catalogue
■ Online data and search engine
■ Google Scholar
■ Other online resources
■ Referencing manager
■ Managing large word documents
Start searching …
■ author
■ keywords
■ title (exact match)
■ phrase
■ database controlled vocabulary
■ any combination of these
■ cited reference
UOB library catalogue
Books
■ Books at UOB
– OPAC
■ Current
– Internet booksellers
■ Retrospective
– COPAC
– Other library
catalogues
■ Interlibrary loan

UOB library
Google Scholar
Link

■ Example:
■ You are designing a library and
you want to include a
makerspace as one of its
components.
■ What are the serch keywords
you will use?
■ Library design, Makerspace,
library user experience
Other online resources

■ Research gate
■ Academia.com
 Referencing manager

Mendeley website
Sign in
Download app
Upload literature
Organize folders
Install Word plugin and website
plug in through tools
https://www.mendeley.com/
 Research and Social media
■ Look at what social media is already
available and accessible to
■ Consider how you can use it to conduct
effective research
■ Contemplate how social media can help you
manage your studies , learn about your users,
observe their stories and site visits
Managing large word documents
■ Working with 411 template
■ Chapters
■ Outline view
■ Heading style
■ Insertion of picture and referencing
picture
■ Tables
■ Updating page numbers
■ Reference (Google scholar cite, or
citethis for me website
https://www.citethisforme.com/
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