Use these strategies to improve your search:

1. Limits: To focus your search, utilize database features that allow you to specify criteria such as date, language and publication type, e.g. peer reviewed journals

2. Sort Order: Note how your search results are organized – many databases sort by date (most recent articles appear first) rather than relevance

3. Subject Terms: Pay attention to the subject terms (the vocabulary used by the discourse community) because they can lead to other relevant articles on your topic

4. Get an Article: If the full article is not available, use

5. Not Satisfied? If you are not finding relevant results about your topic, try different combinations of search terms, or select another database to search