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R U Ready to Kickstart Your Research?

By Wong Kah WeiNUS Libraries

Research Cycle

IDEATIONGet your literature review doneDo a literature search

LOTS of informationOrganise and manage

WRITE, PUBLISH and PROTECT your idea

WIDEN REACH

What is Researcher Unbound

http://libn.us/researcherunbound

Download a file

• Go to: http://bit.ly/ru-kickstart• Download the file to Desktop.

• This file is the Worksheet we will be using during the workshop.

AI have not done any literature searching

BI have searched Google Scholar

CI have searched Google Scholar and NUS Libraries’ resources

Search in:1. Google Scholar 2. NUS Libraries’

resources

Verify your searches:1. Attend RU

workshops2. Email a librarian for

help

Search in:1. NUS Libraries’ resources

What is a literature search?

A literature search forms part of

the wider ‘literature review’

process of academic research. It

involves finding out what other

work has already been done in

your field.

https://www.reading.ac.uk/library/finding-info/guides/literature-searching/lib-literature-searching.aspx

http://guides.library.harvard.edu/literaturereview

What is a literature review?

A literature review is an assessment

of a body of research that addresses a

research question.

It helps you what research has

already been done, what gaps still

exists and what further research can

be done

Worksheet – Q1

NUS Libraries’ Resources and Services (http://www.lib.nus.edu.sg)

Worksheet – Q2

Book is out on loanDue back on 2 Mar 2017

Call Number of book The address of the book on the shelves

Location of book:CL = Central LibraryBooks = 3rd floor

1. Go to: https://padlet.com/researcherunbound/searches

2. Post your search

Examples of some search techniques Purpose

1. Remove irrelevant words from your search

consumer attitude towards social media advertisements and promotions

To get more results

2. Use synonyms to describe concepts. Use OR to string synonyms.

consumer AND (attitude OR behavior) AND (social media OR blogs OR

facebook OR twitter) AND (advertisements OR promotions)

To get more results

3. Search for variations in spelling of concepts. Insert truncation symbol at the root

of the word.

consumer* AND (attitude* OR behavior*) AND (social media OR blog* OR

facebook OR twitter) AND (advertis* OR promotion*)

To get more results

4. Use quotes to do a more precise search.

consumer* AND (attitude* OR behavior*) AND (“social media”

OR blog* OR facebook OR twitter) AND (advertis* OR

promotion*)

To get more relevant

results

5. Use proximity operators to get more relevant results.

(consumer* w/5 (attitude* OR behavior*)) AND (“social media”

OR blog* OR facebook OR twitter) AND (advertis* OR

promotion*)

To get more relevant

results