Session overview

Are you writing your assignments and need to find academic literature to support your arguments? Did you attend Library sessions when you started your course but cannot remember how to search Library databases effectively? Feeling swamped by Google Scholar results? This session is for you. Scopus is one of our top recommended databases to search for academic literature in your subject area. We will be looking at how to create a search string to find relevant papers to your topic by searching in Scopus.

Who should participate

This session is aimed at Masters students who need to find academic literature for their assignments. It does not go into the depth needed for systemic literature searching at PhD level.

Intended learning outcomes (ILOs)

This sessions aims to:

• Help you understand how to identify keywords
• How to use keywords to create an effective search
• How to search Scopus correctly
• How to find the full text of papers in the search results

You can access Scopus from the Library databases A-Z page.

Booking information

This session will be delivered online via MS Teams. You can book a place using DATES.

You can sign up for this session even if you're unsure about attending. If you can't make it, don't worry! We'll send you a recording of the session afterward.

Please note, this session will be recorded and a link to the recording will be shared with those who have booked.

Do let us know if you would prefer not to be recorded, or if you have any accessibility issues, by contacting library@cranfield.ac.uk