Recommended: Sally
Rumsey's "How
to Find Information"
What’s
the best way to find the information I need for my thesis/dissertation/project?
How do I evaluate
the relevance and quality of the information?
How can I keep up to date in my subject?
Anyone setting out to research a topic, whether undertaking a
project, report, dissertation or PhD, needs to find appropriate
resources to inform their work and support their arguments. This
book enables researchers to become expert at tracking down, accessing
and evaluating information.
The book works
systematically through the information-seeking process, from planning
the search to evaluating and managing the end results. Sally Rumsey
looks at how to formulate a search strategy to find and evaluate
the most relevant resources, gives guidance for using online bibliographic
databases and the web, and includes information on referencing,
copyright, plagiarism, and keeping up with new developments in
your field.
This concise
and contemporary book by Sally Rumsey covers all major areas of
information seeking and selection for researchers. Written by
an information professional, it is invaluable for anyone researching
a topic including academics and students, public and government
researchers and researchers in the private sector.
Sally Rumsey
is E Services Librarian at the LSE.
