Contrasts journals written and edited by experts with popular press magazines.

Explores the underused but often effective E-book selection.

Details the operation of CINAHL (the cumulative index to nursing and allied health literature), including the use of common limiters, methods for narrowing subjects, and the process of citation.

Includes examples showing the limiters (occupation, chronology, gender) that can assist students seeking biographies.

The rarely employed boolean operator NOT has a specific use.

Use of Boolean operators AND / OR are essential to search in practically every database.

This video introduces some of the tools (catalog, databases) that students can browse for topics. From there, it covers the issue of scope, and the definition of a thesis statement. (See the "Citation Forecast" video for more on that topic.)