Introduction to Research Skills in Information Technologies

This guide is designed to assist you in finding
and accessing information and developing
skills required for your essays and assignments.

If you have any questions or problems
please contact:


Tom Goodfellow

Before you start
- Analysing your topic
- Finding keywords
- Different types of information
- Off-campus access
Finding articles on your topic
- E-Reserve - Databases
- Searching Inspec, Web of Science, Factiva
- Getting the full text of the articles
Finding books on your topic
- Where to start: the library catalogue
- How to search: using keywords
- Finding the books on the shelves
- Books in Reserve and more
Using and citing your information
- Learn to evaluate what you have found
- How to cite the sources you are going to use
Good Internet starting points
- Why you should NOT start with yahoo or google
- Don't neglect other sources of information
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