Academic Skills Video Collection: Researching

This workshop on effective reading for your assignments will provide you with strategies and top tips to help you read more efficiently and effectively for your assignments. It will help you to locate relevant texts and the relevant parts of texts in order to save you time and help you to focus your reading. 

In this video we look at six ways to help improve your academic reading.

We are often told that we need to read more critically... but what does this really mean? I this video we look at some key questions you can ask while reading that will help you be more critical.

This presentation explores effective strategies for locating, evaluating, and organising sources to enable you to produce a comprehensive and well researched dissertation. It also covers where you can find further help, as and when you need it.

Link to video on Researching for Your Dissertation

This video shows you how to find a book, an e-book, a journal and an e-resource via Library Search http://www.westminster.ac.uk/librarys...

This video shows you how to find articles from journals and magazines using Library Search and how to search for articles on a topic. http://www.westminster.ac.uk/librarys...

This quick video will show you how you can search for a book and then find it on the shelves using the Dewey Decimal System.

Search for books on Library Search http://www.westminster.ac.uk/librarys...

Contact your subject librarian and view your subject LibGuide here: https://libguides.westminster.ac.uk/

You can also check out the university library's Youtube page for more useful videos: https://www.youtube.com/uniwestlib

Google scholar is a great search tool that filters to academic resources when it searches. 

Watch this video for some great tips on using it, including changing the settings to include entries from the University of Westminster's library catalogue.