The eighth chapter of The Bedford Researcher, titled Searching for Information With Digital Sources, talks about looking through different online search engines and databases to find the information you require. This chapter is split into five sections. The first section goes into how to prepare your searches. To do this, the section tells us that we must review the research plan and proposal and look for key words to help decide what are the key words that must be looked for. This section also talks about how to put those words into a search engine to get favorable results. The second section talks about searching for sources with a library catalog, mentioning how using just a keyword or an author may not be effective, and that you may need to combine terms to get results.
The third section gets into how to look through different databases to find sources, and gives a list of question to ask yourself about your topic to help narrow the search. The section also gives a list of different databases, such as Citation Indexes and Media Databases. The fourth section looks at how to use different web sites to get sources for your topic, including blog sites and sites like Google. Finally, the fifth section talks about how to search for sources that are not written sources, such as videos, pictures, and audio files.
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