|® | DOING Your I RESEARCH PROJECT A guide for first-time researchers in education, health and social science Fourth edition JUDITH BELL ‘Open University Press‘Nortmumbea Uaivarsity Pres ee, Neweaie upoe Tyne, NED SST etnortumbrs. 2c) norman «Guide for Reseach ‘ress. The section on serencing Yo ite sith new developments is 1 we segualy. Obtnabe ‘Nonna Univer, S00 partclarty sefl @5 LITERATURE SEARCHING In Chapter 4, 1 emphasized the importance of accurate refer tencing, Now, if your references are in good shape and if you nave begun to establish an easy-to-manage system of cossreferencing, your hard work wil be ewarded. if you are alo familar with one fhe online search tools suchas EndNote, you ae likely to have a head startin the lerature searching tall. However, even sith these advantages, you wl sill need to develop a search sates? and to acqulve search skis so tha, a5 far as possible, you are able todentfy only ehose tem which late direct to your topic and hich eliminate the many thousands which do not ‘The library search If you are involved in 2 100shour project, be realistic. You working toa very limited time scale, so tar with whats available J. your own library. Remember to ask if there aze specialist Nbratians in your own area of study because if there are, they can save you many hours of fruitless searching, [hope Lam sight in assuring that you will aeady be familar withthe layout ofthe library and wil aready have consulted your Mbrary catalogue and the library web page. If not, make sure you do. Library ‘eb pages vary, a6 always, but the best give information about