Don't be afraid to let your personal taste and inclinations guide the direction of your research.
- What kinds of sources do you need?
- If you need scholarly articles, search article databases on the library website.
- If you need movie times, search Google!
- Slow down.
- Is there an advanced search page?
- Can you limit to peer-reviewed articles?
- Can you limit by the year published?
- Can you use any subject terms to get more relevant results?
- Iterative searching
- Learn from the search results
- Too many results? Too few?
- Look at citations from good sources
