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Research strategies: tips and techniques for finding information

Access the full range of our NMIT Research Strategies tutorials - a range of short videos that take you through the process for starting research and finding information including:

  • Clarifying your task
  • Choosing a research topic
  • Identifying search terms
  • Source types and where to find them
  • Google and reliability using CAARP
  • Searching the NMIT Library collection
  • Accessing ebooks at NMIT Library
  • Databases - what they are, and why use one?
  • Databases - intro to topic searching
  • Databases - refining your search by applying limiters
  • Databases - advanced search techniques