Includes bibliographical references and index.

1.Introduction

Why Read This Book?
The Book's Underlying Rationale
Search Tools Covered in this Book

2.Learning and Critical Thinking: The Essentials

Learning and Assessment Basics
Essential Learning Components
Summary

3.Clarifying What Is Required of You

Clarifying the Nature of your Assignment
Planning your Assignment
Summary

4.Finding High-Quality Information

Defining 'Authoritative' Information
Information Seeking
Summary

5.How to Do a Literature Review

Initial Explorations
Strategies for Finding High-Quality Academic Sources
Summary

6.Information Sources and Search Tools

Types of information source
Types of search tool
Summary

7.Mapping Search Approaches and Techniques to Information Needs

Directory-Based Browsing and Searching
Topic Similarity Searching
Document Similarity Searching
Filtering
Citation Searching
Boolean and Other Advanced Search Engine Operators
Summary

8.Scholarly Search Tools in Detail

When to Use Which Search Tools
Google Scholar
SciVerse Scopus
Web of Knowledge Incorporating Web of Science
Summary

9.Transforming Information into Evidence-Based Arguments

Making Information 'Your Own'
Critically Evaluating Information
Validity, Reliability, Objectivity and Generalisability as Critical Tools
Developing Your Own Evidence-Based Arguments
Summary

10.Presenting Your Evidence Effectively
Plagiarism
Citing Your Sources
Summary

11.Keeping up to Date

A New Document is Published on your Topic
Documents in Which You Are Interested Are Cited in a Newly Published Document
An Author is Cited by a New Document or Publishes a New Document
A New Issue of a Journal in which you are Interested is Published
A website in Which You Are Interested is Updated
Summary

12.Organizing and Sharing Your Information

Mendeley Basics
Importing Data from Google Scholar and Other Search Tools
Adding PDF Files to Your Library
Inserting References into Your Work
Summary