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Social Science Discovery: Deep Dive into ProQuest

Current Workshops
This workshop introduces ProQuest, a leading database for social sciences that offers multidisciplinary content. Highlights include materials from the sociology, politics, criminology, information science, education, and linguistics collection.

Unlock your social sciences research potential with our Social Sciences Discovery workshop series. Designed for researchers, students, and academics, these workshops will equip you with essential skills to efficiently navigate major social science databases.

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  • To gain an understanding of the extensive range of databases available within ProQuest that cater to various disciplines within the Social Sciences. This will include an overview of the types of resources (e.g., journals, dissertations, reports) that can be accessed.
  • How ProQuest serves as a foundational platform to start your research, using the integrated search features and specialised databases to locate authoritative sources and conducting literature reviews
  • How to access, cite, and download full-text documents



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Speakers

Siu Chen

Lim Siu Chen

Senior Librarian (Research Librarian – HASS)
Siu Chen is a research librarian at NUS Libraries, with interests in copyright and digital information literacy and their applications to teaching, learning and research. She has experience providing information literacy instruction as part of the Law Resource and Humanities & Social Sciences Teams, and works to increase the embedding of information discovery, evaluation and reference skills in curriculum. She is currently reflecting on library pedagogy and strategy, cultivated by the need to re-imagine the future of libraries in the experience age. She has an LLB (Hons) from the National University of Singapore (NUS) and an MSc (Library Science) from Nanyang Technological University (NTU).
Lynette

Lynette Lim

Principal Librarian (Research Librarian – HASS)
Lynette provides information literacy instruction to students pursuing studies in music, humanities and the social sciences. She loves to dabble in the kitchen in her spare time and experiment with food.

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All NUS staff and students are welcome.
Booking availability on a first come, first served basis.
Registered participants will receive a meeting invite to join the workshop online.

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