 The Curtin Library Catalog provides a useful starting point for your research. You can access books, journal articles, reports, online videos and more on your assignment topic. To begin searching, enter broad keywords from your topic in the search box and click search. Logging into the catalogue will provide you with extra functionality when searching. Click login, then enter your Oasis credentials. Initially your search results will be quite large as the catalogue will list all resources which match your search terms. You can filter your results by clicking on the options in the right menu. The availability filters allow you to limit to peer reviewed articles, resources that are available online or resources that are available in the library. Under resource type, you can filter to particular types of sources such as journal articles or newspaper articles. If you select books, this will filter the results to books and ebooks on your topic. To remove the filter at any time and return to the main search results, click the cross next to the filter. If you are looking for recent sources on your topic, you can refine your results using the creation date filter. Most of the library's resources are available online and can be opened directly from the library catalogue. To access, click the available online link in the catalogue record. This displays the database or databases that the item is available in. Note any availability information listed below the database that may affect access. To open the item, click the database link. If you have previously logged into the catalogue, the item should open directly. We recommend accessing journal articles in their PDF form whenever possible as it will assist you with your referencing. It is useful to keep a record of relevant sources you have found so you can easily locate them at a later date. You can save item records to my favourites by clicking the pin icon in the catalogue record. To access the saved records, click the pin icon that appears next to your name in the top right toolbar. Note that your initial search may not always retrieve the best or most relevant results for your topic and you may need to alter your search to find what you need. If you are looking at different aspects of a topic, you may need to perform multiple searches with different combinations of keywords to find information on each of the areas.