For a basic review of topic development, search construction, and evaluating sources, the course guides for some of the writing-intensive courses may be helpful.
How Do I Find an Article? also has some useful advice on turning your initial idea into search terms and then combining those terms.
The Get Help option on the Libraries site is the place to find tutorials, research guides, contact information for librarians who can provide more in-depth help, and other assistance in using library resources. Use Services & Tools for information on how to borrow or otherwise access resources.
Research is based on vocabulary. Look for all possible terms to broaden your search.
Concepts for "information behavior."
Remember that some words have alternate spellings, so you may want to include both "behavior" and "behaviour" in your search terms.
Research Guides (also known as LibGuides) are put together by librarians to direct you to the most useful databases, journals, and other resources in a specific subject area or discipline. You can access the guides from the Get Help option on the Libraries site.
There are multiple Research Guides available for Library and Information Science and more for Communication. Other subject specific guides will be important if you're interested in information seeking behavior in a particular area (e.g., nutrition or health). Research Guides also link you to the specialist subject librarians at Rutgers. If you have trouble identifying a guide to consult, try using the search box at the top of the main Research Guides page.
Tips:
Yes, Wikipedia and Google do have a place in your research – as places to get you started.
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