Research Strategies
- Clearly identify your information need
- Identify key words and search terms to match your topic
- Develop search statements using advanced search techniques
- Boolean logic, adjacency searching and truncation
- Use the Stewart Library Online catalog to find books, or try World Cat for books in other libraries. You can order these using Interlibrary loan.
- Use article databases to find journal articles
- If articles are not fulltext, search Ejournals to see if the article may be located in another database.
- Use Interlibrary loan to get materials that are not in Stewart Library
- Use search engines to find Web information
- Carefully evaluate the information you find for usefulness and quality
- Revise your search terms and strategy to expand or narrow your results, be creative, look in other areas
- Once you have found information from an Internet site you can Email the documents to yourself, print or save them to a floppy disk
- Use appropriate style to document and cite research
- Ask for HELP at Reference, via phone, chat or email. Got to the Stewart Library Home page for help options.
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