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Click on the image below to work through the online tutorial on studying as a master's student. There are activities for you to take part in along the way.
How to succeed at masters study
The following helpsheet will take you through the basics of how to succeed at masters study:
Printable helpsheet (PDF)
This video from Leeds University explains what lecturers expect from masters students:
You can set up alerts for individual journals so that you are alerted whenever a new issue is available. You can set this up via an individual database or direct with the publisher of the journal. You can also use a service such as JournalTOCs.
JournalTOCs is the largest, free collection of scholarly journal Tables of Contents (TOCs): over 23,000 journals from 2029 publishers. It is for researchers, students, librarians and anyone looking for the latest scholarly articles and alerts you when new issues of your followed journals are published.
In Discovery and most databases you can save your searches and set an alert to inform you when new articles have been added that match your search keywords. You will need to be signed in to be able to do this.
RSS (Really Simple Syndication) feeds, also known as 'news feeds', are another way of keeping up to date by allowing you to see when websites of your choice have added new content.
RSS can be used as an alternative to email alerts, allowing you to set up feeds from online databases in your subject area to see details of new journal articles that have been added to the database.
Other web-based services e.g. BBC News website, support RSS and you can set up a feed for an area of news that interests you.
More information on how to start using RSS feeds from:
You can monitor the Web for new content by using Google Alerts to get email updates of the latest relevant Google results (web, news, etc.) based on your choice of query or topic.
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