Always, please, remember to call it "research." (I got this from my friend in Pinsk).
J. Frank Dobie once mentioned that if one steals from a single source, it's plagiarism; if one steals from twelve, it's research.
Quietly Flows the Don to the Western Front.
A Russian itinerant, who needed to travel from Minsk to Pinsk, caught a ride with a wagon driver whose cart was drawn by a rather ancienthorse. As they approached the first significant hill on the Minsk-Pinsk highway, the driver halted the cart, unhitched the horse, and asked the passenger to assist him in pushing the wagon to the top ofthe hill. At the top, he hitched up the horse again, and they proceeded on their way until the nextsmall elevation, where they again repeated the previous procedure.After the fifth such ritual, the now-exhausted passenger dropped to his knees at the side of the road and looked quizzically at the driver. “I know why I have to get to Pinsk. I suspect you have a reason for going there as well. Enlighten me please. Why are we bringing the horse?”