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Home Courses Information Literacy II Course materials Readings 3.4.2 What’s next?

3.4.2 What’s next?

Course subject(s) 3. Processing

Now it’s up to you…

You can conduct your own literature search. Make sure you plan enough time for it.
You should be able to put everything you have just learned into practice:
  • 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

In this list you will find tools to support your literature search:

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.

Criteria and suggestions for a good literature list.
Information Literacy 3
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

Access these useful information sources directly from this Brightspace page:

Resources by topic
Selected sources of scientific information for each discipline.

Used to search for books and more…

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.

EndNote

Information and downloading instructions for the reference managent tool (for Windows or Macintosh).

Software to produce literature lists for LaTeX documents.

Online reference work of the TU Delft Library. It includes everything you have learned in this instruction and (much) more.
You may also want to have a look at some of the modules not used in this instruction, such as:
TU Delft Library website
Access to all library resources and services.

And finally…

If you run into any problems or need further assistance: consult TUlib, the online reference work for Information Literacy.

 

Good luck with your literature research!
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