The following steps will provide you with an overview of how to conduct research on the SCCC library website. 

If you prefer to learn by watching a video, this College Seminar Library Orientation video by SCCC librarian Jennifer Farquhar offers a careful, detailed introduction that many students find useful, especially the information she shares about

 

KEYWORDS

DATABASES

While OneSearch is a useful feature in the SCCC Library website, at times it may not help generate the types of research you're looking for. For more control over your searches, I recommend clicking the Articles and Databases link at the right side of the SCCC Library homepage, under Research Links. Or you can go to this direct link:

Here you'll see three large, multi-subject databases: EBSCO, Academic Search Complete, and Academic OneFile. These can often generate useful matches for your search terms. Unlike when searching Google, you want to use more general search terms to begin with. 

You'll also find at the top of this page that there's a drop-down menu of subject databases. I personally find these very useful. For example:


For your homework for this module, you will read several pages about how to locate accurate, reliable information sources, and then you'll post some practice research to the discussion board.