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1 juli 2025

Grey Literature Workshop Handout 2025

This handout guides you through practical exercises to find and assess grey literature using free tools and clear criteria.

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Norma Fötsch, Rebecca Calcott

27 juli 2023

Explore and refine your topic: Build your search profile

Creating search strategies. Group words and combine sets. Boolean Operators. Boolean Statement Tool. Exercise: Broaden or Narrow. Related.

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Erasmus University Library

27 juli 2023

Explore and refine your topic: Log your searches

The search log Logging your searches helps you to avoid unnecessary repetition in your searching and will save you valuable research time. Start a log You can start with a simple search log in NotePad. NotePad opens above the browser so you can make notes during your search sessions. Print the search history Many subject specific databases allow you to print the Search history - a log of the searches conducted in a session. Saved searches & database alerts Many databases allow you to create an personal login to save searches and create alerts. Suggested Related

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Erasmus University Library

30 juni 2023

Search methods & techniques: Search techniques

Search techniques - phrasing, wildcards & boolean operators To use databases efficiently there are several search techniques you can use to improve the precision of your search results. Phrase search Phrase search is one of the most used and most effective search techniques. Wildcards & truncation Wildcards are useful for finding variant characters within a word (masking) and for finding words with different endings (truncation). Boolean logic Use the boolean operators AND, OR and NOT between keywords to search more precisely for what you want. Exercise Broaden or Narrow Related.

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Erasmus University Library

30 juni 2023

Search methods & techniques: Search methods

Search methods - from snowball to cited reference search There are different search methods to help you find the information you need. Quick & dirty If you want to get information in a hurry, or if you want a quick introduction to a topic, you can use the so-called quick and dirty method. Snowball Search for older publications If you wish to obtain detailed information about a subject or find lots of information, you can use the snowball method. Cited reference Search for newer publications With this method, the search starts with a key document, as with the snowball method. Related.

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Erasmus University Library

1 januari 2023

Guideline: Effective use of information within DBE for lecturers University of applied sciences

Within Design Based Education (DBE), students work on real-life issues as often as possible. Through an iterative design and research process, students explore the question, delve into possible solutions and elaborate on them. This guideline provides lecturers with tools and questions to help shape information literacy skills in a DBE atelier/workshop within a course, semester, or module.

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Nynke Janna Borsje, Olga van Dijk, Sonja de Haan, Alie Mud, Hester van Randen

15 april 2020

Information Skills: Module C Effective database searching

Module C of Information Skills. Learning objectives:understand that database searching requires effort; know how to identify appropriate search terms for your subject; how to construct an effective search using the following search techniques: Boolean operators; nesting; phrase searching; truncation & wildcards; field searching; limiting searches & refining results.

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Tilburg University Library