Guidance on topic searching using Library Search.

1. Library Search:
searching by topic

2. Distributed leadership
Head to the homepage of your
‘Business, Accounting & Finance’
LibGuide.
Use Library Search to look for
resources on a topic of interest.
The more keywords you search
with, the more specific your
results will be
Tip: Starting your searches
with broader keywords, then
narrowing as you progress,
can help to ensure you don’t
miss any useful resources

3. The ‘Articles + more’ tab will
show all available resources on
the topic, including textbooks,
ebooks, magazine and journal
articles.
Note: Switching to the
‘Catalogue’ tab will limit your
results to textbooks and
ebooks.

4. To reduce your results to a more
manageable number, there are
two things you can do:
1: Use the filters on the left
of the page to refine your
results.
You can refine by publication
date, format, location and
more.
Refining your results

5. Refining your results
2: Use additional keywords to
find more specific results.
By searching
‘distributed leadership and
productivity’,
the search results have reduced
from over 7,500 to 96.

6. To access an academic journal
article, click on the article title to
view the online access options.
Access