OSTD 4105: Concepts and Theories of Leadership

Questions to ask to formulate keywords or ideas to use to search for information about your topic:

• Who? Who is the specific person/group to which you would like to limit your research?
• What? What specific aspect of the broad topic idea is interesting to you?
• Where? To which specific geographic area or region would you like to limit your research?
• When? On what time period would you like your research focused?
• Why? Why do you think this is an important/interesting topic?

Subject Terms are like hash tags (#); databases use these terms to tag an article to help you find it. It is the databases' specific language or a way to describe an article. You can use subjects in a search by putting them in a search box, or clicking on a term in your results list to further explore the articles that are tagged with that term. See the example below: