EE: Research Tips

Don't forget to read the bibliographies of the articles that you find for additional leads!

Use Ebsco or other WAB subscription databases by clicking on icons in the box below.

Tools for Brainstorming topics

• A Very Short Introduction
• Clustering search engine: Carrot2
• Lists of EE Topics by subject (see more topic ideas by DP subject on the Research Questions tab above)

Some cool specialty research sources

• Elicit-craft a research question and connect with relevant sources (AI tool) (4 min video)
• SciSpace-helps breakdown and explain academic journal articles (AI tool) (1 min video)
• Talk to Books-search Google Books for answers to your questions (AI tool) (5 min video)
• Connected Papers-shows you the papers that were cited in the study and papers that cited the study (5 min video)
• Google Dataset search-find datasets for analysis (*Also consider using Statista database)
• AllSides-Don't be fooled by media bias and fake news: same news is covered from left, right and center
• 100 Specialty Search Engines
• Newspapers from around the world
• PressReader-WAB subscription to international newspapers and magazines  *Let me know if you need help getting set up.

Online academic sources

• *Use Google Scholar rather than Google for academic resources-click on 'Related Articles' (also Google Scholar add-on)
• Semantic Scholar-A free, AI-powered research tool for scientific literature
• Elicit & SciSpace are full of great sources for research
• Directory of Open Access Journals
• Hindawi-open access science journal articles
• Academic Databases and Search Engines (some are free)

Training/tips

• Set up an EE News Feed for your topic
• How To: Google Advanced Search