Media Studies: About

This LibGuide supports students and researchers in Media Studies doing a Literature Review. 

1. Explore your topic:
   on finding (library) resources to help you explore and refine your topic.
2. Search Literature:
   on actually searching for books and articles relevant to your topic, using relevant keywords and a sound strategy.
3. Process Literature:
   on managing and evaluating the literature you have found.

Also consult the Handleiding Academische vaardigheden 2.0 (in Dutch) and Chapter 2 ("Literature review: Not a method but a prerequisite") from the New Media Studies Method Reader.

This is just one of our LibGuides containing tips, theory and training for searching and using scholarly information. Check our LibGuides page for an overview of all guides relevant to you.

You can start your research anywhere and anytime. Both the resources for searching literature and the literature itself are often available online. Yet the library as a physical space remains important.

• Use our printed resources (for instance on Communication and Information Sciences and Media and Culture).
• Do you need help? We have Information Specialists standby during office hours (Monday through Friday from 9 A.M. to 5 P.M) to assist you personally. Just ask for them at the Service Desk.
• Use our study facilities (Wi-Fi, computers, laptops for rent, study spaces for groups). 

Students and employees of Utrecht University have online access anywhere and anytime. Learn more on how to get access.