What resources you look for and where you look for them depends on what your information needs are.
- Are you still looking for ideas for topics? Background and reference sources can be helpful.
- Are you trying to decide on keywords? A subject dictionary can be helpful.
- Have you been asked to write about a current event? Newspapers, magazines, websites, and other news agencies will get you the most recent information.
- Do you need to know the research by scholars in your field to apply to your question? You want to use databases that include scholarly journals.
- Are you looking for in-depth coverage or multiple perspectives? A monograph (another name for book) might be the best.
