Choose a topic area you are interested in and want to learn more about. Type that topic into OneSearch... On the left, limit results to within the last 5 years, scholarly, and journal articles. If you have well over 15,000 results, your topic is too big. So! Look over the titles for smaller topics within this topic area... perhaps you want to focus on a specific population, area, or related subject. Add that focused area to your search.
For example, I want to look at euthanasia, but get 25,285 results (too many). So, I look through the results and see lab animals as a related subject. I add lab animals to euthanasia and search again. I get 16,181 results... which is around 15,000, so it's fine.
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