What Makes a Good Search Stategy?

Every good search strategy considers three questions:

• Where to search?
• How often to search?
• Which search terms will best help me find the information I need?

Searching from within Citavi

• Library catalogs for books you can borrow from your institution's library or request through interlibrary loan.
• Bookseller catalogs for books you can purchase.
• Databases for journal articles, gray literature, contributions in edited books, and books.
• Specialty search engines (for example, ingentaconnect.com) for journal articles.

Keep in mind that different resources are updated more or less frequently. A library catalog may change less frequently than a specialty search engine, so repeat your searches accordingly.