This great guide includes: an overview of search strategies; a short video tutorial on using the Ebsco databases; tutorials on finding and using scholarly articles; tutorials on searching the HSU collection (what do those call numbers mean anyway?); using and evaluating content on the Web (yes, sometimes you can find great stuff on the 'Internet' but you need to be careful!); how to cite your sources and avoid plagiarism; and how to write a literature review.

Conducting a search isn't always as easy as it should be- crafting your search terms and learning how to narrow down the list of results to the ones you want is a science and an art. Before you start banging your head against the wall, visit this guide to get some tips on: identifying precisely what you are searching for; understanding your research concepts and how to connect them to form your search phrase; and narrowing down or broadening your search when you're not getting the results you were hoping for.

This video (9 mins) explains what a literature review is and discusses the role of the literature in research. Created by the NCSU library.