POL3 221: World Politics

• use synonyms to find all the ways your topic is expressed:  war or conflict
• use the citations and references in one source to find other resources, including reports, data, and other articles! Check out the footnotes, endnotes, and bibliography.
• use truncation to save time: combat* for combat, combatant, etc. 
• combine multiple concepts using AND for best results
  
  example: (freedom OR right OR privilege)
                 AND
                 speech

SuperSearch is a great place to start for journal articles, books and almost everything else the library has, in one easy to use interface.

For searching with more focus and precision, try one of the databases recommended on this guide.