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The information you discover will inform your thinking. Faulty information can only lead to trouble.
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If you start with Wikipedia, don’t stop there. See what sources it cites and dig deeper; use it to help you identify keywords for searching databases or library catalogs.
Find online guides to general and subjectspecific information, guides for courses, research assistance and more provided by librarians. Go to: lib.umd.edu/guides.
Search databases (collections of online articles, abstracts, or citations). Learn more about databases on page 10.
HOW WE CAN HELP
With funds provided by your tuition and fees, the University Libraries pay licensing fees for online databases much the way that you might pay for a magazine subscription. Use the Database Finder at lib.umd.edu/dbfinder to find and sort relevant databases by type or topic. You still have to evaluate the information they provide within the context of your assignment.
Use scanners, located in all libraries, to scan journal articles. Save an article as a PDF file and e-mail it to yourself or save it to the cloud (see page 28).
