Books are a great place to start finding information for assignments. They are useful for building a general understanding of your topic.
Try the following steps in Library Search to find print and online books:
1. Search the Library using keywords.
2. Go to Refine my results and select Books.
3. Also select Available Online if you would like see online books only.
4. Select Apply Filters.
5. Check the results for relevancy.
Tips: Keywords are words or concepts from your assignment question or topic. Refine my results can be found on the left hand side of the results page or via the filter icon
on mobile.
Use dictionaries to find definitions and thesauri to helps locate similar terms.
To find encyclopedias in your subject area:
1. Search the Library using keywords, for example 'communication'
2. Go to Refine my results and select Reference Entries