Know as much as you can about your topic before diving into scholarly sources. Encyclopedias, magazines and newspapers are great places to start learning about your topic. They can also help you to start thinking about keywords, experts on a topic and find references to articles that you can use to build your search strategies.
Credo Reference is an eyclopedia database that provide you with a great place to start your research. Try a search through the link below.
A collection of nearly 500 encyclopedias, dictionaries, and other reference books provides a good starting point for research.
A good starting point for this kind of search is EBSCO Discovery Service or Academic Search Complete which can help you to locate a variety of sources (journals, newspapers, magazines) on your topic.
