Once your topic is chosen, focused and refined, it is time to locate and collect information. To be certain your research is thorough you need to utilize the following:

• Locate books on your research topic on the library's online catalog.
• Locate periodical articles using the library's online databases and print indexes.
• Locate statistical sources such as the statistical sources in the reference collection mentioned previously.
• Track recent and pending legislation. Congressional Quarterly Almanac and CQ Weekly Reports are two sources for this information, but many other good sources exist.
• For additional information, you may want to visit some pertinent web sites. The subject guides found on the library web site often contain links to selected sites.

**Please keep in mind a significant amount of information offered on the web is biased and possibly bogus. These issues are addressed in Lesson 4 - Evaluation of Information and Sources.**