This site has been designed to introduce you to the tools and resources that will help you to research your assignments. This guide includes some useful links at the bottom.
Before you begin your research, it is worth planning your search. Consider your assignment question and the different search words that relate to this - these are what we would call keywords.
Try and come up with words that are meaningful on their own (words like Impact and Disadvantages are often unhelpful when searching). You can map these out in a way that helps you to carry out your searches and come up with different search strategies. Here is an example keyword search table:
| Artificial intelligence | Higher Education | Learning |
|---|---|---|
| AI | HE | Development |
| Large Language Models | Universities | Students |
| LLM | Education | Student learning |
| Chat GPT | University | |
| Google Bard |
From here you can develop meaningful search strategies e.g. Artificial intelligence and Higher Education / AI and Universities and Students
Books are a good starting point for research, helping you understand concepts, theories and models and to introduce these in your work. However, journals are key sources in your academic work as they will go into more depth on a topic than books and will give you useful examples and contexts to bring into your work.
You can use NELSON to search the library’s books, e-books, e-journals, videos and more. Sign-in with your University login to access the full-text. If the item is available electronically you’ll see a link to the full-text online. If the content is available in print, you’ll see a shelfmark letting you know where to find the book on the shelf.
NELSON is a broad search tool, so for a more focused search you can search the databases for business directly. You’ll find these listed under the A-Z Databases link on NELSON where you can filter by subject to Business and Management.
From the A-Z databases page you can filter by subject to see the key resources for Business and Management. The top box shows the 'best bets' for searching but here is a full list of useful databases for academic research:
Links to videos are available at the bottom of this page to help you with some of these resources.
