Description

How to Find Information

1) The information gathering process
2) The skills required
3) Defining the subject
4) Defining the purpose and scope of the research
5) Setting up and getting started
6) Plan of campaign
7) Making the most of a library
8) Finding information about existing research
9) Access to information about research
10) Indexes and online databases of research activity
11) Research Councils UK and other funding bodies
12) Theses
13) The type and detail of information required
14) Types of information
15) Primary and secondary sources
16) Multidisciplinarity and subject overlap
17) Defining the area and limits of the research
18) How much information is appropriate?
19) What is already known?
20) Planning an information finding strategy
21) Discovering relevant materials
22) What are abstracts and indexes?
23) Online bibliographic databases
24) Issues relating to online databases
25) e-Books
26) Catalogues and bibliographies
27) Open access materials
28) Other sources and types of information
29) Selecting sources relevant to the subject
30) The online searching process
31) The online searching process
32) How to plan a search strategy
33) When to run the search
34) Evaluating the results
35) Saving the results
36) Completion of the search
37) Citation searching
38) Citation indexes
39) When to stop
40) Electronic citation searching