Finding the Information you need

Zelda Chatten Liaison Librarian

•Finding ejournals on the Library catalogue•Organising your search before you get started•Discovering full text and expanding your search•Finding resources yourself – hands on workbook

Session outline

You can find relevant books, ebooks and ejournals on the Library catalogue

Remember on the catalogue you can only search the title or description of the journal – not the individual articles within the journal

You will be able to access most of the journals online

...organise your search before you get started!

For more in depth searching...

Plan your search:

•Write down your project title!

•Think about what you are trying to find out

• Break your topic down into smaller chunks

•What are your keywords? Decide on the most important parts of your project

• Once you have defined your topic, set limits (date, region, language etc)

Mathematics in Sixteenth Century

France

Mathematics

Break down your topic

Sixteenth century

France

Arithmetic

Renaissance

Western Europe French

Maths

Calculation

16th century

Start your search with DISCOVER

Click to find full text

Choose which website to view

Bibliographic details of your article

This is the article abstract

Click here to open full text

Read, print or download the full text of the article

http://libguides.liv.ac.uk/mathematical-sciences

Advanced databases for further searching

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