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Step 3: Locate Materials
- Books: Use mainly for background information, history, overviews of a topic
- What to Search: Use your broader search terms (topic keywords) to search catalogs for books
- Where to Search: Library Catalog, (select Search Books and Media tab over the search box on the library main page). Also search Worldcat (to find other books that the West Library doesn't have)
- Journal Article:Use for in-depth topic research, and experimental results
- What to Search: Use the keywords you selected from your research question or other terms that you identified from steps 1 and 2
- Where to Search: EBSCO Discovery Service, individual Journal databases
- Web Pages: Varied--Everything from scholarly level research to pop-culture pages
- What to search: Use the keywords that you developed in steps 1 and 2
- Where to search: Google, USA.gov, other search engines
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