Not all of your search results will be relevant to your specific research question. Evaluate your results to decide what will be most useful.
Looking at the citations in a database can help with this - they include information such as: the article title, journal title (or book title), publication date, subjects, and often an abstract (article summary).
- Subjects: describe the article topic, can also be used to find other related sources
- Abstract: short summary of the source. In many databases click on the title of the article or book to read the abstract
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