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SS Research: Identify / Focus

Identify

It's time to focus that topic! You've searched the broad range of your topic, but now you need to identify one specific aspect of interest to you  to guide your  further research

Resources

Use the subject-specific databases

Now that you need more detailed information, the subject specific databases are especially useful. Because they don't have to cover everything, they can give you more detailed content knowledge.

FOR SCIENCE

HISTORY

LANG AND LIT

CURRENT ISSUES

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Academic Databases

Academic Search Engines

Rather than use a general search-engine like Google, academic search engines  focus on scholarly, peer-reviewed content.   They automatically "weed-out" a lot of the Google Garbage.