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The aim of this guide is to help you search effectively for information for your assignments and projects. In other words, it will show you how to carry out a successful literature search. It has been designed to cover all aspects of searching and allows you to focus on particular parts of searching as follows: 1. Define your research topic. 2. Identify your search terms (keywords). 3. Combine search terms to improve your search. 4. Short cuts (phrase search, truncation, wildcards) 6. Browse and evaluate your results. 8. Identify sources to keep you up to date. To get the most from the guide, we recommend that you work through all the topics displayed on the tabs above. |
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The librarians at Newcastle University have developed a short quiz to help you see just how good your Information Literacy skills really are. Why not test yourself?
Help and Contacts
There are lots of ways you can get in touch with us.
1. Contact your Subject Librarian. There are teams of Subject Library Staff across the campuses whose role is to support you. Contact details for all team members are available on the subject team contacts page.
2. Use the 'Library Help' service to search our large knowledgebase to find answers to your queries or to send us a query.
Have a look at the information on the Library Website home page. Look at the various Quick Links and also Library Services for general information about the Library or on Subject Guides for information about resources in your subject area.
