What library resources are available to help me with my thesis or dissertation?
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When you're starting your research, look through the bibliographies of relevant sources that you find for related books and articles. You can start your research through Multi-Search at libs.uga.edu, which searches ~100 of our ~800 databases at once.
You can also try the Google Scholar engine on the libs.uga.edu website, which grants you additional access as a UGA affiliate. Use the "Cited by" feature in Google Scholar, which allows you to see other publications that reference the article at hand. Here's a tutorial on how to do that.
Here are some other useful resources:
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CED Research Notebook: An electronic version of the free handout (available in print at Owens) providing an overview to research at the CED
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Kate L. Turabian's Student’s Guide to Writing College Papers - A great reintroduction to writing an academic research paper
Library Research Guides
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Introduction to Literature Reviews:
How to initiate and process an in-depth search of the scholarly literature-
An overview of Boolean keyword searching
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Landscape Architecture LibGuide: Includes many databases relevant to your discipline, some of which don't appear in Google Scholar or Multi-Search
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Find more interdisciplinary databases by subject, including Anthropology, History, GIS Data, Plant Biology, and Ecology
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Citation Management:
We highly recommend using the resources below to manage and proofread your citations.
How-To Guides
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A full list of tutorials for doing research at the UGA Libraries
Research Consultation
If you would like to have an in-depth research consultation with the CED Librarian, Lydian Brambila, you may schedule an appointment through LibCal.