As you work through your own research quests, it is very important to be self-reflective. Consider:

- What do you really need to find?
- Do you need to learn more about the general subject before you can identify the focus of your search?
- How thoroughly did you develop your search strategy?
- Did you spend enough time finding the best tools to search?
- What is going really well, so well that you’ll want to remember to do it in the future?

"Based at Harvard’s Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, Journalist’s Resource examines news topics through a research lens. We curate and summarize public policy research relevant to media practitioners, bloggers, educators, students and general readers. Our philosophy is that peer-reviewed research studies can, at the very least, help anchor journalists as they navigate difficult terrain and competing claims. Our hope is that journalists, in the course of reporting, will routinely ask this question: What does the research say?"

This service searches almost all of our databases. Use this when you want resources from a variety of places and formats. You can also use the publication search to locate a particular publication. You can also locate physical books from the collection in discovery service.

Make a copy of this sheet to use when mapping out the relevant keywords for your topic. Refer back to it when searching, and add to it when you encounter new terms.