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
Join us in this lecture to discover features and functions in Scopus, Web of Science and Swepub, such as multidisciplinary literature search, chain/citation search, how to get an overview of your subject field, and where to find research in Swedish.
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.
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.
Preparations for the workshop
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.
- 20 March at 11.15-12.00 Lecture in Zoom (No registration required)
- 26 March at 13.15-14.00 Lecture in Zoom (No registration required)
- 1 April at 11.00-12.00 Workshop in Zoom (Registration required, deadline for registration 28 March)
- Event series: Social Sciences Libraries events for PhD students
- Event type: Lecture
- Language: In English only
- Audience: Doctoral students