Use this box to quickly search Research@UWW for books, media, and more at UW-Whitewater.
Ebook Central, is a large ebook database subscribed to by the Andersen Library. It contains over 120,000 online books on a wide variety of topics. Search it by typing your query in the box below.
It is important to have a topic that is both manageable and researchable. Using keywords (important words from your research question) will help you focus. Since you may not know the terms frequently used by researchers and other experts in the field you are researching, collecting a pool of words based on your initial keywords will be of great use. You can find these new words by brainstorming. The below tools can help you do that.
Access thesauri by searching Google, Bing, DuckDuckGo or another search engine, Here are two common methods. Each keyword you are starting with is [your keyword] in these examples:
If you are having a hard time brainstorming, you may want to try one of these useful graphic dictionaries that help find synonyms.
Instead of searching using a browser as explained above, you can also go directly to your thesaurus of choice. Here are a few examples:
The Dictionary of Art by 
Encyclopedia of Comparative Iconography by 
The Encyclopedia of Sculpture by 
Great Artists of the Western World by Great artists of the Western World II by 
Schirmer's Encyclopedia of Art