Search Tips - too few results

When searching if you are getting only a few results remember to

• Check your search strategy - have you thought of all possible spellings, alternative words etc
• Broaden your search by omitting a search term
• Search further years back
• Select another database

If you find a relevant article remember this can help you locate others by checking the references at the end for other related works.

Search Tips - Search strategy

Once you have identified the resources you think may be appropriate you should then analyse your topic and note down any keywords you can use in your search.

• Consider synonyms/realted terms - eg shoes, footwear
  
• Consider acronyms and abbreviations - eg EU/ European Union
• Conside different spellings - eg globalisation/globalization

When entering your search term improve your chances of finding useful and relevant information by

• Combining search term using AND/OR/NOT
• Using truncation to find all forms of that word, for example manag* will retrieve results for all forms of the word such as manager,managment, managing etc
• Replacing one or more letters of a word with a wildcard (symbol) in order to retrieve all versions of that word, for example wom*n would find woman/women - this is useful for when american spellings