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- 3. N E : O DEFINE YOUR TOPIC
- 4. O : T W PULL KEYWORDS FROM YOUR TOPIC QUESTION
- 5. AND
- 6. BRAINSTORM SYNONYMS FOR THOSE WORDS
- 7. E E : T H R SEARCH IN RESEARCH DATABASES
- 8. IK E : L ACADEMIC SEARCH COMPLETE PSYCINFO LEXISNEXIS
- 9. FIND THEM IN THE RESEARCH GUIDES OR IN GALILEO
- 10. U R : F O USE BOOLEAN OPERATORS
- 11. A OR B
- 12. A AND B
- 13. A NOT B
- 14. IV E : F USE SUBJECT HEADINGS
- 15. SUBJECT HEADINGS ARE A SET LIST OF KEYWORDS THAT DESCRIBE A TOPIC WITHIN A DATABASE.
- 16. IT’S LIKE TAGGING. ONLY BETTER.
- 17. LO OK FO R: THESAURUS SUBJECTS
- 18. S IX : USE FOOTNOTE CHASING & CITED REFERENCE SEARCHING
- 19. FOOTNOTE CHASING I S:
- 20. FINDING ARTICLES BY LOOKING AT THE REFERENCES OF RELEVANT ARTICLES
- 21. CITED RE FERENCE SEARC HING IS:
- 22. FINDING WHO HAS CITED RELEVANT ARTICLES
- 23. GOOGLE SCHOLAR WILEY ONLINE LIBRARY LOOK FOR "CITED BY" LINK UNDER THE ARTICLE TITLE & AUTHOR INFO
- 24. ASK YOUR LIBRARIAN! westga.edu/library OR CHECK YOUR SUBJECT'S RESEARCH GUIDE libguides.westga.edu
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