Your background research in encyclopedias, etc. will help you discover:
Specialized terms that researchers use (as opposed to natural language)
Related terms - to help you discover topics similar to your own
Controversies - what are people arguing about? What do they care about?
Stakeholders - who is impacted? Who is doing something about it?
The screenshot below has a sample search.
Separate search terms on lines so as not to search by phrases and so you can use OR
OR between keywords allows you to broaden and make flexible your search. You can search many terms at once, but only one needs to be in the result for it to show up.
Decide what type of info you want - data found in reports, or research and analysis found in books and articles?
Currency can help your narrow to more recent articles.
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How to find testimonios
Test the following keywords to find testimonios (which are not always called that in our databases):
Updated monthly. Provides full-text coverage of newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic, minority and native press in America (some international coverage). Includes more than 400,000 full-text articles from 200 publications.
Updated regularly. Contains citations with abstracts to social science and humanities literature on all aspects of U.S. and Canadian history, culture and current affairs from prehistoric times to the present. Covers books, book reviews, journals and dissertations. Also reviews films and video projects. The database corresponds to the print America: History and Life, which is produced by ABC-CLIO. The database covers history, interdisciplinary studies of historical interest and history-related topics in the social sciences and humanities.
Updated quarterly. Contains records for all types of material on Mexican-American topics and Chicanos. Since 1992, the Chicano Database covers material on the broader Latino experience, including Puerto Ricans, Cuban Americans, and Central American immigrants.