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Useful links

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Reading Lists

Key Starters for Essays and Dissertations

Finding Articles

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• Recommended Journals

• Advanced Citation Databases

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Citation databases can be very helpful for advanced research at Masters' level upwards as they help you move quickly from a known author or article to finding out which other articles list them in their bibliographies. This is especially useful when you have only found a small number of results in your initial searches.

• Scopus

Scopus is the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed journal articles, book chapters and conference proceedings. It also features smart tools to track, analyze and visualize research.

Top tip: do a normal keyword search, then change Sort on: at the top right of your results from Date (newest) to Cited by (highest). This will show you which articles on a topic are cited most by other academic authors.

Short video on doing a basic search in Scopus

Watch this short video about advanced features of Scopus

• Web of Science

fully searchable in EBSCO Discovery

You will find the Social Sciences Citation Index the most useful part of this - just below Timespan on the left of the search screen, click More settings so that you can de-select the rest.

Watch these training videos

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