COU 599: Professional Orientation to Counseling  

Here are a few tips to expand your research success:

• Try synonyms for your topic, and explore broader and narrower concepts.
• Pay attention to key terms and other subject headings in the databases.
• Always take a look at a work's references. Notice if there are authors that appear time and again; those are the experts on the topic.

Chat with the library staff:

(limited hours)

Even a small library, like the one at Doane College, contains a lot of information on topics that you will cover in this course. You just need to figure out how to get to it! This guide was created to take a little of the mystery out of using the library's resources as you begin to do research on topics in the field of counseling.

If you're starting from scratch and don't know much about your topic, finding a good reference article can get you started in the right direction. It also might help you narrow the focus of your topic.

Here are a few electronic psychology reference resources available to you through the library: