OUGD501 COP LECTURE - LIBRARY RESEARCH

- Cite them right: The essential referencing guide (book that's good for how to reference - Harvard style - everything properly)
- The lecture is available on the Library page on eStudio
- Other Harvard Referencing guides as available on eStudio.
- Name your essay title very short and concise, don't use vague or broad terms or the word "and".
"The role of costume within the film 'A Taste of Honey'" - Good essay title
"Did western society ever need cars; are they a necessity and how have they contributed to the formation of the urban environment" - Bad essay title
- Give advance notice of the kind of questions you'll ask for an interview so you can get thorough answers
- Be broader on search for library books to get as many results as possible. There may be chapters of specific topic in broader books that won't come up in specific search
- SCONUL Access (Gives you access to all universities libraries in the UK)
- Read a books introduction as it's often a summary of the whole book
- Look in a books bibliography to find similar books
- The British Library stocks all books published in the UK
- JSTOR is a store of online magazine articles. If you're off campus you'll need an Open Athens login
- Art Full Text (accessed through the library portal) is the same as JSTOR but art specific
- Open Athens. Ask library for your login and password
- Bob National is a store of TV and Radio programmes
- Use Google Scholar not regular Google to search for articles as it's more reliable and accurate
- Create a sense of momentum (note taking, writing a draft, keep up with your bibliography) so it isn't as hard to start and keep going.

This Library Resource lecture was really useful to show us the different sites and things that are available to us to help research for our dissertation, whether we stay in Leeds and have access to the college library or go home. It was also useful for helping in deciding the name of the essay, and how to create the best name to make researching it easiest. I will definitely be using some of these sites to help research, and also rethinking my essay title into something more specific and concise.