Welcome to this open Canvas course on effective literature searching.

This will enable you to plan and carry out a more targeted search, and to retrieve more precise results for any work which involves finding good quality literature such as journal articles.

The course will help anyone looking to start out with literature searching: for undergraduate assignments or early postgraduate studies, or as a refresher if you've been away from formal study for a while.

Completion time: 1.5 hours.

You can -

Take the course at your own speed
Return to any particular elements to refresh your skills on specific areas

Queries:

If you have any queries, please contact the Academic Skills Centre on asc@contacts.bham.ac.uk.
If you're a Doctoral (PhD) or later Researcher, contact the Research Skills Support team