Welcome to this workshop for OTHM010: Developing a search strategy and managing your literature. The first half of the workshop will present the key elements of a literature search and help you to explore how to develop a search strategy. The second half of the workshop will offer ideas on how you can record and manage your literature search.
You can access the diagnostic questions on menti. These questions are designed to help us understand your confidence with literature searching and using the library.
Here are the results as they come in:
You do not need to login to Google to respond to the questions.
During this activity I want you to take 10 minutes and use your keywords to search for literature relating to your chosen topic. You can search on NELSON or a specialist database. You may want to make a note of:
How do you think the search went?
You can add your reflections on the search to the padlet below. Please click on the plus sign + to add a padlet. Add the database and keywords you used to search and your thoughts on the results you have seen so far.
This guide has been designed to support you after the workshop. There are activities to help you plan your search, as well as links to key databases where you can find research for your professional project. The activities are:
