About
What this module covers
This module is part of the suite of literature review modules research. It outlines the importance of adapting your main search strategy to effectively be applied across different databases and information sources. By understanding the processes and techniques of translating searches, you can ensure consistency and comprehensiveness in your literature review process.
Through engaging with the content and activities in this module, you will learn how to:
- Recognise the benefits of translating search strategies across multiple databases.
- Apply techniques to translate search syntax, subject headings, and limiters for different databases.
- Document and proofread translated searches to maintain transparency and reproducibility.
- Run and save translated searches in various databases and export results into bibliographic management tools.
This module will take approximately 20 minutes to complete.
Key consideration
We need to translate your search strategy so that each database search is as close to the main strategy as possible. This ensures consistency and minimises bias in the evidence we retrieve.
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Attribution and acknowledgement
Crediting creators or attributing content is a core part of both academic integrity and of being a digital citizen more broadly.
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