Are you SearchSmart? (#1)

How confident are you that you can search the literature for articles for your assignments and dissertation? We’re going to run a series of blog posts over the next few weeks to help you to be search smart.

You’ll find all the blog posts tagged with the label SearchSmart. From the blog item, click on this label, either at the bottom of the post or from the tags list on the right-hand column, and you’ll be shown all the posts, that have been published, together.

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We’re hoping that these blogs posts will help you to develop your literature searching skills so that you’ll find it easier and quicker to get the right information that you need.

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