Chapter 8

Chapter 8 - Searching for information with digital sources

Review research plan and proposal, identify key words and phrases. Use research question, position statement or thesis statement as starting points to find key words and phrases for your sources.
Different searches are basic, use keywords, exact phrases, or wild cards.
Advanced searches use Boolean operators to narrow down field.
Online catalogs such as www.worldcat.org you can search with keyword, author, title, subject heading, or call #.
Databases such as eric.ed.gov need to be chosen based on their relevance and what type of sources you are looking for.
Web search sites such as google, can be used to find; directories, deep web search sites, meta search sites, news search sites, reference search sites, government doc search sites, e-book sites, blog search sites, discussion search sites, social network search, or alternative search sites.
Media search sites include image search sites, audio search sites, and video search sites.

This chapter goes into depth about all the different sources that are available online, how to find them, what to use them for. I can use this to find exactly what type of sources i need, and to ensure that those sources are relevant and will help me further my research.This chapter also gives examples of all the different digital sources, and images of how to use them which will be incredibly helpful if i need help narrowing down my search with something like Boolean operators.