• UL Instruction
  • Getting to know the University Library
  • Internet Research
  • References and citations
  • RefWorks
  • The basics of scholarly publishing
  • What is a book?! for philosophy students
  • Online Scholarly Collaboration
  • Research impacts: sources & metrics
  • Searching for scholarly information / management and economics
  • Searching for scholarly information / social sciences
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    • Contents
    • Before you start your search
      • Getting to know your subject area
      • Defining the problem
      • Dividing the problem statement into elements
      • Determining the search terms
      • Combining search terms
      • Example of a search profile
    • Searching
    • Once you've found it, then what?
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Before you start your search

Before you start your actual search it is necessary to explore the subject area. After this initial orientation, you can formulate a good definition of the question or problem and set up an accompanying search profile.