Doctoral student: Beyond Google Scholar or Choose and use suitable databases
Google Scholar is a great tool for quickly spotting articles and other related literature. But there are other databases available to us at GU, with curated data and more features. This makes them more transparent than Google Scholar and powerful tools in a literature search.
About the event
The Social Sciences Libraries offer a lecture and a subsequent workshop for doctoral students who are starting up their literature review, writing their thesis plan or feel they need a run-through of how to search for information in subject databases.
Preparations for the workshop
You attend one of the lectures (they are identical and a prerequisite for the workshop) before the workshop. To attend the workshop, we ask you to register. You can also register for the lectures.
If you can’t attend the lecture you need to prepare for the workshop by reading the sections “The search strategy toolbox” and “Information resources” in the Canvas-module Introduction to information literacy and scholarly communication for doctoral students.
The events have a focus on disciplines at the Faculties of Education, Social Science and the School of Business, Economics and Law. Lectures are held in English.
- Lecture 6 November 11:15-12:00 Join the lecture in Zoom. No registration required.
- Lecture 12 November 11:15-12:00 Join the lecture in Zoom. No registration required
- Workshop 18 November 11:00-12:00 in Zoom. Register for the workshop. Last day of registration: 13 November
- Event series: Social Sciences Libraries events for PhD students
- Language: In English only
- Audience: Doctoral students