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Bodleian iSkills: Finding stuff - scholarly literature for your research

A practical introduction to searching for scholarly materials to support your research, covering a range of tools for finding monographs, journal articles, conference papers, theses and more.

Subjects to be covered include:

Run effective literature searches
Find monographs and other scholarly items in Oxford Libraries using SOLO
Search for journal articles using subject databases and scholarly search engines
Search for theses and dissertations from around the World using Proquest and eTHos
Search for theses from Oxford University using SOLO and ORA
Search for conference papers using Proquest, OCLC and other databases

Intended Audience: Postgraduate students, researchers and academics.

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Presenters: Pinelopi Flaouna, Isabel McMann and Jane Rawson

Format: Presentation with practical exercises

What you will need? A computer will be provided. If you prefer to bring your own laptop, please read our guidance notes.

Using your own laptop - guidance

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