Assignment: Methodology
Why document your search?
- Helps to keep track of what you've done so that you don't repeat things that aren't helpful
- It allow you to easily reuse strategies in different databases
- Helps you describe your search process for the methodology section of your paper
- Allows someone to replicate your search
Things to include:
- Name of Database or Websites used
- Search strategies for each resource including the search terms and limits (i.e. dates, languages, scholarly or peer-reviewed)
- Number of results for each search strategy
