This online session will guide you through finding external scholarship of teaching and learning literature (i.e. that produced outside of The Open University). Numerous approaches to finding literature will be demonstrated, compared and contrasted and different search techniques will be discussed. Learning Objectives: - Knowledge of a selection of search tools relevant to external scholarship literature - Knowledge of a selection of search and browsing techniques relevant to external scholarship literature - Increased understanding of issues relating to finding external scholarship literature - Increased confidence in finding external scholarship literature

1. Finding external
scholarship literature
David Jenkins Research Support Librarian

3. Speaker/headphone
settings

4. Microphone settings

5. Raise hand

6. Chat

7. The session encourages
you to search for, evaluate
and use external
scholarship literature in
your projects

8. Finding lists of scholarship journals
Comparing databases/search engines
Planning a search
Evaluating literature with the Scholarship
Checklist
Outline

9. Finding lists of scholarship journals
Comparing databases/search engines
Planning a search
Evaluating literature with the Scholarship
Checklist
Outline

10. Finding lists of scholarship journals
Comparing databases/search engines
Planning a search
Evaluating literature with the Scholarship
Checklist
Outline

11. Finding lists of scholarship journals
Comparing databases/search engines
Planning a search
Evaluating literature with the Scholarship
Checklist
Outline

12. You can find a list of
scholarship journals using
Library Search

13. You can find scholarship
journals by using trusted
lists of journals

14. You can find scholarship
journals by using journal
rankings lists

15. Metrics are not perfect and
need to be used with
caution

16. Revisit the basics of
planning your search

17. You can search for
scholarship articles using
Library Search, Google
Scholar and British
Education Index (BEI)

18. Google
Google Scholar,
Library Search
BEI

19. You can evaluate the
literature you find using the
Scholarship Checklist

20. Any questions?

21. You can email us at
library-research-
support@open.ac.uk