The right keywords help to effectively search catalogs, databases, and the Internet.

- Compile a list of keywords that represent each concept of your topic.

- Use more specific terms when searching databases versus catalogs.

- Look for additional terms in your search results.

•  Add these to your list.

- Search Google Books for keywords in the title, table of contents, subject headings, and text of books.

- Use the Library of Congress Authorities and Vocabularies thesaurus

•  to find variations of keywords and subject headings.
  

Conduct multiple searches (RE-search) in various databases.