Science Extended Degree: Help With Searching

• Phrasemarks ensure that you only find results where those words are together in that order e.g. "foundation maths"
• An asterisk will search for any group of letters e.g. biolo* will find biology, biological, biologic etc
• A question mark will search for one letter e.g. wom?n will find women and woman

• For a tutorial in how to use PubMed see these web pages or this brochure (PDF)
• The Science Direct help pages are here
• Training materials for Scifinder can be found on these web pages
• For help using Scopus see these web pages.

Check out the Write Like a Scientist guide (including videos) on how to plan, research, structure and review your scientific research.  It was created by an Academic Skills Tutor in Applied Sciences. This YouTube navigation guide introduces the resource.