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• Define your topic
• Determine search terms
  • Dictionaries, Encyclopedias, Thesauris
  • Use the electronic databases and the libguides to find these sources

General Library Catalogue (Smartcat) only to be used for:

• Checking whether material is available
• First orientation on your topic
  • Not only Scientific Publications
  • Not every journal is indexed!

Specialized (Literature) Databases

• Find precise literature in specialized databases
  • Use libguides for inspiration and to find persons to contact

If you have questions or would like to give feedback please contact the Library's education team at eduteam-library@rug.nl.

• Trouble Shooting: Too many publications
  • Specify with more search terms (AND)
  • Search within specific fields (title words, subjects, keywords)
  • Use thesaurus terms
  • Use more specific search terms
  • Use limiters, e.g.: period
  • Use the NOT operator to exclude terms
• Trouble Shooting: Too few publications

  • Think of synonyms (OR)
  • Look up official terms (dictionaries, thesaurus, handbooks, encyclopedia)
  • Use thesaurus to search jn free fields
  • Use truncation cognit*  child*
  • Check the reference list of articles that you have found + citation search

Internationalisation of education

aspects: education, psychology, migration studies and institutional policy.

Found interesting sources in the libguides related to the different aspects?

Please let us know!

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