 One strategy for locating statistics to support your research topic is to use the advanced search function in many of the library's article databases. Relevant statistical data is often included within the full text of an article, and many databases provide options for searching only for those articles that contain statistics. As an example, let's conduct a search in one of the primary business article databases, Business Source Premier. First, I'll click on the Resources by Subject link in the Search and Find drop-down menu. Then, I'll select Business, and from here I can see the Business Source Premier database link. This brings me to the basic search screen. The first thing that I want to do is switch to the Advanced Search screen, which will provide more options. The paper I'm writing is on recommendations for employers to reduce their health care costs, so I'm going to type some key words describing my topic. I'll use Employers, Health Insurance, and Cost Control for my search. By clicking on the Search button, the database retrieves a fairly lengthy list of articles all containing my search terms, but not all of the results are going to contain the statistical information that I'm looking for. Now, let's go back to the Advanced Search screen and limit the search results to identify only those articles on this topic which contain figures or statistics. So, I'm going to scroll down to the Limit Your Search results section of the Advanced Search screen. You can see that there are lots of options here. If I scroll to the bottom in the Image Type section, I'm able to check a few boxes, for example, Diagram, Chart, and Graph. In order to limit my search results to only those articles that contain these types of images, so you'll see I've limited my search using the checkboxes, and I still have my key terms in the search box, so I'm going to click Search again. We can see that the results list is quite a bit shorter, only 24 articles. Let's take a look at one of those articles. Survey says cost sharing remains top way to control benefit costs. I can click to review the citation and the abstract, or I can review the entire article. As you can see, they've pulled out four of the charts that were available in this article, and I can choose to view one of these. I can see that this chart has to do with cost control techniques used by different businesses regarding their health care costs. I can get a better view of this image by clicking the High Resolution Image link. Here I can see some of the various techniques used by companies to control their health care costs. Not every database will offer the same advanced search functions. You may need to explore the various screens in a database to determine if the search options you need are available. Let's take a look at one additional database in the Health Sciences field. Next time, I'm going to use the Physical Education Index. Again, I'll go straight to the Advanced Search screen. In this database, there are not very many options for limiting your search. However, I do see at the top of the screen that there is a section labeled Figures and Tables. I can use this search screen to type in a topic, and it will search for articles containing graphs, illustrations, tables, etc. Let's search for information about acupuncture. Looking at this list of results, we can see that they all contain some sort of table chart, graph, or image. Let's take a quick look at the table in this first result. This table shows treatment preferences among physical therapists and chiropractors for the management of neck pain. Here we can see the different types of treatment and the frequency with which care providers use them. If you need assistance locating statistics on your research topic, please feel free to contact the library's Ask a Librarian service.