Research & Postgraduate Students

"Know where to find the information and how to use it –
That’s the secret of success"
Albert Einstein

Search + Find

• Search + Find is the library's simple and fast search engine that helps you discover relevant information on any topic from the Library’s collections.

• Search + Find is a good place to start your research

• Use Search + Find to find the many information sources that will encompass information relevant to your research.

• Search through a massive collection of books, journals, newspaper articles, e-journals, e-books, theses, conference proceedings and more.

When you find the item you want you'll see its shelf or class number, this will help you find it in the library. For online items, like eBooks, click on the link to read it online or download it!

Citation Searching

Citation searching allows you to follow the research path forward and backwards in time, enabling you to understand how a research area has developed.

Looking into the past: Look at the references at the end of the paper to recognize which papers and researchers the author read and cited.

Looking into the future: Discover who has cited the article since it was published (Times cited).

To do a citation search Choose a core article or book that will form the target of your search (in publication for at least a year). Then locate a citation index such as Web of Science or Academic Search Complete.

Example

Here's an example of a Web of Science search sequence using Diener, E. (1999) Subjective well-being: Three decades of progress, as the target book citation:

1. Go to Web of Science.
2. Open the drop down menu by 'Basic Search' and select the 'Cited Reference Search' option.
3. Enter the name of your author (Diener, E) and the year of publication (1999).
4. Select Search.
5. You will see a list of items published by Diener in 1999, which have been cited in the bibliographies of the articles in the database.
6. Select the entries that correspond to your target and then select 'Finish Search'.
7. Have a look at articles in the results list and use the mark feature to save them in a list of useful references.

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