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Literature Search Skills Drop-ins (S&E and HSS)

If you're looking for support with things like searching databases, finding high-quality evidence on the web, and using EndNote, why not come along to one of our in-person drop-in sessions? The sessions run several times a week in both the Mile End Library. There's no need to book, you can just turn up!

A drop-in session is an unstructured session open to all students at the university. There is no need to book onto a drop-in, you can just turn up. In the session there will be an experienced adviser present, with whom you can discuss any queries you have relating to searching for information. The content of these sessions will be dictated by your needs but could include:

  • guidance on searching databases
  • finding high-quality evidence on the web
  • simplifying referencing using EndNote

You can come along to any session you like and stay as long as you like. How you use the session is up to you. You might have a specific question in mind you want to ask the adviser, or you might just want a quiet space to work independantly, knowing there is an adviser on hand for if/when you have an issue understanding something. Either way, we encourage you to bring along some tasks to work on whilst you're in the session, as the adviser may be busy with another student when you arrive and so you might have to wait to talk to them. 

The Advisors cannot proofread or edit your work, or give you feedback of work that will be assessed.

Drop-ins are every week on Wednesday and Thursday from 2pm-4pm in the Mile End Library Seminar Room (on the ground floor; go through the two sets of double-doors in front of the turnstiles and cross to the back of the open plan section)

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