What Makes a Good Search Strategy?

Every search strategy must consider three things:

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

Use Citavi to search in:

• Library catalogs for books you can lend 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 changes less frequently than a specialty search engine, so repeat your searches accordingly.