This course page was created for CORE 1000: Beyond Self-Care: Tools for Building Resiliency in Fall 2023. Contact your class librarian (Rebecca Hyde) with any question or to make an appointment for an in-depth research consultation. For quick and/or general questions you can also use our 24/5 chat assistance to get help with your research! Don't forget, if you've been researching for 20 or 30 minutes and are getting anywhere, stop what you're doing and ask for help!
Encyclopedia's can be great sources for getting started with your research. They will give you and overview of a topic, including touching on different aspects which can include definitional information, history of a topic, current areas of research, and more. Whatever you're researching, these can be a good place to start if you're still getting familiar with a topic. Subject specific encyclopedia's are a good place to see the perspective of a particular discipline.
Some databases will include the full-text of articles, but others will include the
button which links to full-text when available and if not available, gives you the option to request articles for free through Interlibrary Loan's Illiad service.
Have you already spent 20 minutes search and you feel like you're hitting a wall? Stop what you're doing and contact your librarian!
Research takes time, and when you're working on research for a paper you might spend hours researching and try many, many searches before you're done. But you shouldn't spend hours searching and finding nothing. If you spend 20-30 minutes on your research and you're not finding anything remotely relevant, please stop what you're doing and contact your librarian! I can help you develop search search strategy, and maybe choose another database more suited for your topic.
