Try pairing search terms related to the topic you have chosen for an informative speech. See below an example search in the database Academic Search Complete for articles about college students, social media, and mental health.
Some examples of additional search terms relating to social media and college students are:
Adding an asterisk (*) to the end of a word "tells" the database/search engine to find all variations of that word.
Example Search
Multi-disciplinary database with full-text access to thousands of scholarly journals, plus online books, videos, news/magazine articles, and more. Also, contains the library's catalog of locally held physical materials.
Streaming service for video content spanning a wide range of subject areas including anthropology, business, counseling, film, health, history, music, and more.
Find global information on a wide range of topics from a variety of news media featuring newspapers, videos and web-only content including the Columbus Dispatch, Cleveland Plain Dealer Collection, USA Today and international sources.
JSTOR is a digital library of journal content, books, images and primary sources covering a wide range of subjects across the humanities, social sciences and science.
