Target Audience
Postgraduate research students, early career researchers, and members of staff in the Social Sciences.

About this session
This is an introduction to literature searching, critical evaluation, and managing your references, run by the Libraries' Learning Development Team (Information Skills). This session will allow participants to develop their literature searching skills and become more effective researchers. 

Learning outcomes:
By the end of the course, you should be able to:

• source UoN resources and specialist information within a discipline to employ a thorough literature search​
• construct effective search strategies using appropriate terminology and database functionality to facilitate retrieval of relevant literature​
• use alerting services to keep up to date with research in a specific discipline​
• employ critical skills to evaluate the authority, reliability and validity of published literature​
• determine relevant services which enable access to resources beyond the university to extend research​

Description
This is a two hour online course, which runs three times per year.

If you cannot make one of our Researcher Information Skills sessions, access the asynchronous online resource Researcher Information Skills in Social Sciences

We also run webinars for Undergraduates and PGT students during term time, which PGR and staff members are also welcome to attend. Please see our events page to view the upcoming sessions. For your information, the 'Advancing Your Literature Searching Skills', 'Critically Evaluating Information' and 'Using Endnote' webinars cover equivalent content to Researcher Information Skills.

If you would like an introduction to using the university Libraries as a researcher, please attend a Library Welcome session or visit our Postgraduate Researchers: Welcome to Your University Libraries resource.

If you have any questions, please get in contact with the Libraries' Learning Development Team (Information Skills) via library-teaching@nottingham.ac.uk