Now that we found some results in the library databases, how do we make sense of them?

We should first look through the titles in our search results to see if they seem relevant to our topic. If we see a title that looks interesting, we can click on it.

Search results showing an article titled Broadening the conversation: Why black lives matter

Next, we should scroll down the page to find the Description to learn more about what this article or source covers.

Image of description for the Black lives matter article

If this seems like a good source for us, we can scroll back up the page to find View It. Clicking on the database name under Full text availability will take us to the article in that database.

Location of full text availability links for the Black lives matter article

Adapted from: "Basic Library Research Canvas Module" by Sue Wozniak , Lake Washington Institute of Technology Library Learning Commons is licensed under CC BY 4.0