Films about searching for information
Searching for information is a process in several steps. These steps are described in the films below.
Introduction
A short introduction to the different steps of searching for information.
Scholarly articles
What is a scholarly article? How is a scholarly article usually structured?
Questions and keywords
Starting with the question that you are working with, how do you find suitable keywords to search for?
The library’s databases
What databases can you access through the Konstfack library?
Building a search question from your keywords
How can you combine your keywords to build a good search question? How do you use Boolean operators, truncation and phrase searching to get as many relevant results as possible?
Searching for subject terms
How do you search for subject terms in the library’s databases?
Handling a list of results
How can you work with a list of results?
Retrieving the articles you have found
How can you access a full-text for the articles that you have found?
Evaluating your results
How do you evaluate the material you have found?