Documentary research is one of the most important strategies that the researcher follows in collecting reliable information، to understand and study a specific topic or phenomenon based on a set of available data, but the lack of data affects the research framing .and the credibility of information also doubts and detracts the value of the research and its results. Documentary research, as it was conducted accurately, contributes to the development of the research, and the knowledge of the findings of the researchers in the field of research. The research objectives of the documentary research scale are: Defining students to the general concept of documentary research and its traditional and digital methods. Introducing students to the documentary research strategies and find out how to slect information as well as the analysis of document. Introducing students to referencing in ordre to avoid plajiarism. Keywords: research, documentary, intellectual vessels, reference vessels
module program:

1. A conceptual introduction to documentary research

2. Searching for information: its concept and methods

3. Objectives of searching for information

4. Obstacles to searching for information

5. Searching for information: its techniques and tools

6. Historical development of bibliographic tools

7. Documentary needs:

- Documentary research sources

- Control (mastery) in its use

- Scheme for formulating documentary requirements

Levels of documentary needs

8. Types of sources and reference vessels

9. Principles and rules of documentary research

10. Documentary research methods and strategies

11. Evaluating and sorting the search results

12. Methods and rules of referential marginalization