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Paramedic Science: Library Sessions

Library resources for paramedic science

Induction session recording

A recorded version of the live induction will be added here.

Demonstration Recordings

to follow...

 

Useful additional information

2024/25 - Semester 2

PS6004 Advanced Literature Searching Session Resources - April 2025

Presentation slides


Tasks

More detail is on the Padlet, access it here.

 

Session development questions

1. What are your current searching strategies?

2. What do you want/need to know about literature searching?

 

Literature searching tasks 

1. Plan a search for a topic/question you want to explore/are thinking of for your project

2. Perform that search in Discovery / Bibliographic databases / GoogleScholar

3. Compare the functionality of the platforms 

4. Compare the results across the platforms 

5. What would/can you change about your search to improve it? 

6. How are you going track future literature searches? 

In completing these tasks you should have: 

  1. A literature search strategy that brings back relevant and useful results across multiple platforms 

  1. A structure for a literature search recording method/strategy of your own devising 

 

What next?

1. What are you going change about your literature searching?

2. What else are you going to explore as a result of this session?


Session feedback 

Please provide feedback on the content and delivery of the session here.

 

2024/25 - Semester 1