Structuring your searches and recording the results

4. Search demonstrations

Whilst all of the techniques that we have explored here can be used by researchers working in any discipline, a search undertaken by a Medical researcher will be significantly different from a search undertaken by a researcher in the Humanities or a researcher working in the field of Science and Engineering. We have provided examples here of a research question and research topics.

Researchers in Science and Medicine can watch this short video which demonstrates how to put all these techniques into practice using a search of PubMed. Our research question is:

Is vaccination effective against the spread of bird flu?

HSS researchers can watch this short video which demonstrates how to put all of these techniques into practice using a search of Scopus. Our research topic is:

'Social media activism and the rise of the Green Economy in China'

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