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Film, TV and Media: Search and Evaluate

Search tips

Information Skills: Search Techniques
Overview of search techniques including Boolean operators (AND, OR, NOT) and phrase and field searching.

Film and Media Search Tips
Example of search techniques using examples from film and media.

Anglia Ruskin University Library Search Guide
Guide to finding books, journals, articles and databases through Library Search
Googling Better at ARU
Video playlist on using Google Scholar effectively and advanced Google searches.

Evaluate tips

Articles: Popular, Trade, and Scholarly
Short video explainer on how to recognise different types of articles
What kind of article?
Fuller tutorial on different types of articles includes how to access them, when to use them and how to reference them in Harvard style.

Film resource grid
Guidance on popular, industry and academic information, with real examples, how they differ and when they should be used.

Information Skills: Evaluating
Details of what questions to ask when judging if an information source is credible and suitable to cite in your work.