Google and beyond: literature searching for undergraduates
Date and time
Location
CC43
Queen's College Silver Street Cambridge CB3 9ET United KingdomDescription
'Google and Beyond' Workshop: How to become an expert at finding, evaluating, and organising essential readings for your course.
Save time, astound your DoS and raise your game (academically) with your ability to locate, evaluate, and organise essential and rare information in your subject area. Two sessions to be led by Dr Tim Eggington (Fellow Librarian) and Lucy Woolhouse (Reader Services Librarian) will take place on Monday 3rd February at 1.00-2.00pm and 5.30-6.30pm in CC43.
Areas to be covered:
Google v. Google scholar (finding & evaluating information)
Searching beyond Google using Web of Knowledge, Scopus, etc.
What is Jstor? Using online journal databases effectively
Using ebooks effectively (& avoiding reading list panic)
Introduction to organising and building bibliographies using the free Zotero software.
This will be an interactive session, so please bring your laptop.
This session is aimed at Queens' undergraduate students.
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Founded in 1448, Queens' College Library consists of both old and new. The Old Library is still situated in its original room with bookcases made from medieval lecterns. Although none of the original collection remains, the library holds a fine and hugely significant collection of c. 30,000 early printed books and manuscripts dating from the 12th to 19th centuries.
Occupying the old Chapel, the student library (War Memorial Library) is spread over 3 floors and provides a variety of study spaces, as well as books for all tripos subjects and friendly librarians who are happy to help with any questions.