3.4.2 What’s next?
Course subject(s)
3. Processing
Now it’s up to you…
- formulating your research topic
- deriving your sub questions and search queries
- selecting information sources and adapting the search queries
- evaluating your search results
- storing and sharing the scientific literature you have found
- generating a literature list
Tools
Search strategy table
Use this table to work out the concepts and synonyms/related terms in your research question (or sub-question) and to formulate your search queries.
Use this form to record your searches in various information sources.
The Brightspace course ‘Information Literacy 3’ supports you in writing a thesis. You can enroll in this course via the Catalog.
The course consists of questions, answers and demos divided into different phases of the process.
Useful links
Resources by topic
Selected sources of scientific information for each discipline.
Can also be accessed directly from the TU Delft Library website.
Searchable database of journal articles.
Searchable database of journal articles.
Patents
You can find patents in patent databases.
In TULib you can find an overview and comparison of these databases.
They are also included in the sources by faculty discipline on the TU Delft Library website.
Information and downloading instructions for the reference managent tool (for Windows or Macintosh).
Software to produce literature lists for LaTeX documents.
Access to all library resources and services.
And finally…