You may have started looking around for materials to use in your research and been overwhelmed by the amount of information available. In this section, you will learn some tried and true strategies for navigating the sea of scholarly information that is available to you at UNC. You will review the following topics in this section:

• Title, Author, and Keyword Searching
• Keyword vs. Subject Searches
• Boolean Operators
• Truncation and Wildcards
• Tracking Citations

These techniques are broadly applicable throughout electronic indexes and databases, including library catalogs, and even in Internet search engines.