Book Title: Research Skills for Postgraduate Study
Subtitle: A Library Primer
Edited by Philip Worthington
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Book Description: This book is designed to prepare postgraduate students for advanced research at Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington. It advises and guides students on the research skills needed to carry out independent academic research projects for the first time.
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Book Description
This book is designed to prepare postgraduate students for advanced research at Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington. It advises and guides students on the research skills needed to carry out independent academic research projects for the first time. Students will be guided through key stages of research: Formulating a research question, scoping search, comprehensive searching of the literature, evaluating information sources, and reference management. Practical and informative in style, the book does not cover writing and research methods. The book focuses on the skills a University Library teaches and supports. While written for Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington students, using our own examples, links and references, the core text is generic in nature, to allow for other New Zealand Universities to adapt the book for their own situations and cohorts.
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Research Skills for Postgraduate Study Copyright © 2025 by Authors is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.
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Research and information: general
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Research Skills for Postgraduate Study Copyright © 2025 by Authors is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.
This book was published by Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington via the Council of Australian University Librarians Open Educational Resources Collective. The online version is available at https://oercollective.caul.edu.au/research-skills-post-grad
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Research Skills for Postgraduate Study edited by Philip Worthington and written by Marcus Harvey, Peter Quin, Catherine Doughty & Philip Worthington is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial 4.0 Licence.
Recommended citation: Worthington, P. (Ed.) (2025). Research skills for postgraduate study: A Library primer. Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington. https://oercollective.caul.edu.au/research-skills-post-grad
Recommended attribution: Research Skills for Postgraduate Study edited by Philip Worthington is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial 4.0
Cover Pattern
The cover uses the kowhaiwhai (enlightenment) pattern extracted from Te Tumu, designed by Tane Morris for Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington.