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Social Sciences - Research Skills - Intermediate

In this course you will learn how to determine your need for information; find information effectively and efficiently; check information carefully; process and save information.

Learning objective, estimated time and required knowledge

Learning objective

In this module you learn how catalogues and bibliographies are used to find suitable literature for your paper or research. Three sources are outlined: Libsearch, Web of Science and Scopus.


​Estimated time
This module will take you about 20 minutes to complete.

Required knowledge
We assume that you know what keywords in a search query are. If necessary, take the module 'How do I start a literature search?'. Also you are assumed to be familiar with how to combine search terms (Boolean searching)