Developing Research Skills for Staff (HWLS): Comprehensive Guide to Finding the Literature for Science and Health Subjects

If you feel you want to progress to a more comprehensive search of the literature, this guide will help you to develop your search skills further than what we have covered in this guide.

The link to the guide is in the box below.

This guide takes you through a step-by-step process of finding and selecting the evidence for your literature review in the science and health subjects. Divided into 12 steps, this guide will help you get the most out of doing your literature review, whether that is a stand-alone piece of work, as part of a wider project that involves writing a literature review as part of the process.

You can either follow the guide from beginning to end, or select the part of the process you want to know more about or upskill in. 

The guide will help you:

• find information
• apply a structured approach to research
• help minimise missing key papers
• save time!