 Hi, in this video, we'll cover how to develop keywords so you can find information in library resources. Keywords are the building blocks of how you will conduct your search in the library resources. When searching for books and articles on your topic, you need to speak the same language as the tools you are using, which means we have to break our ideas into key concepts or keywords rather than using everyday speech. To identify keywords, the first step is to start with your research question. Let's say your research question was, how can city farming help improve food security in urban areas? You may be tempted to put this whole question in your search box. Don't do it. You might get some results, but this is not how we search library resources. Instead, determine the key concepts or ideas in your question. This means dropping terms, such as roles, relevance, effect, improve, and other terms that aren't really necessary to search. Your keywords are the main ideas of your topic. So what do you think? In the question above, what are the keywords? Hopefully you identified something along the lines of city farming, food security, and urban. Usually, when you're brainstorming keywords from a research question, two to three is a good place to begin. Searching using these three terms will get you good results that will help you answer your specific research question. To help expand your search, break each of your keywords into potential synonyms or like words or ideas to the keywords you developed. To brainstorm synonyms, it's a good idea to think about how different groups of people might refer to your term. For example, think about how an expert or a scholar within this particular field of study might discuss this topic. For example, instead of saying city farming, an expert might call this urban agriculture. Contrastly, a local or a resident of this particular urban area might call this city gardening. These are all like terms we can use in your search to represent this one keyword. Let's try another example. What if our question was, how does stress impact the academic performance of college students? What are the keywords you might use to search for information on this particular question? Hopefully you came up with stress, academic performance, and college students. You're getting the idea. Keywords are the important ideas within your research question. As you start searching in library catalogs or library database, try different combinations of keywords to improve your results. If you're getting too many results, try adding another keyword. Too few, try making your keywords broader. For example, in our research question about city farming, we might try a broader term for our keyword food security such as nutrition. As we move through searching different library resources, you'll see how combining keywords in different ways impacts the kind of information you are finding. We'll continue to work with this research question on our journey through each highway on the roadmap to research.