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The prompt
Copy the example prompt in the box below and paste it into an LLM of your choice.
Context
Act as a university librarian and recommend relevant, up-to-date, and traceable references for my research on: “enter topic here”.
I am currently working on “topic X” at a University in Europe and am researching “your topic”. My (preliminary) research question is: “enter research question”. I need sources on these key aspects: 1. Key aspect 1 2. Key aspect 2 3. Key aspect 3
Scope
Provide me with a list of 10-20 relevant sources for my research question. Explain why these resources were selected and include links where they come from, ideally traceable to the publisher. Listed sources should be accurate, and the coverage should be comprehensive, including a variety of source types, viewpoints, and publication dates. List the outcomes based on publication date/relevance. Explain how relevance was selected and explain the coverage of your search.
Please ensure that the literature retrieved is academic and includes: published peer-reviewed articles, manuscripts, grey literature, and/or preprints.
Exclude: news, and opinion pieces.
Please include worldwide/European/African/American/Asian/Dutch/X key manuscripts. Explain the geographical scope of your search.
Look for specific research designs: quantitative/qualitative/mixed methods research.
With my research I want to reach this target audience: scientists/students/educators/X.
You can include manuscripts in the following languages: “English/Dutch/German/French/Spanish/X”. Do not translate the original titles of the publications and the journals names to make it fit with my language requests.
Task
The results should be a list of relevant and traceable literature that critically assesses aspects of my research question and valid for higher education in the field of “enter the discipline”. If you find additional information from another discipline or research field ask whether you can include them as well.
You can/cannot suggest other potentially relevant topics. If you do not need any additional information, then you can get started.
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