• Introduction
• 1. What Do You Know?
• 2. Entering Reference Land
• 3. Search the Library Catalog
• 4. Entering Database Land
• 5. Assessing What You Know
• 6. Wrapping It Up

Water Rites

Sample Research (Humanities)

Plan B - Three Days

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Step Four: Entering Database Land

With my list of books and notes, I am now prepared to enter the databases.

In the databases, you can use refined keywords (i.e. baptism, instead of church history) to find what you need.

In a crunch, focus on full-text and mostly full-text humanities and general indexes:

• JSTOR
• Ebscohost
• Proquest
• H.W. Wilson

I didn't get much, because a lot of the types of articles I need will not be online, because of how the database land works. I did, however, get enough to write my paper.

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