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1. Introduction: resources and strategies

2. Resources

2.1 The Library

2.1.1 Books and Journals

2.1.2 CD-ROMs

2.2 The Internet

2.2.1 Online Databases

2.2.2 World Wide Web

2.2.3 News Groups (including FAQs)

2.2.4 Mailing Lists

2.3 People

2.3.1 Subject Librarians

2.3.2 Lecturers

2.3.3 Students

3. Search Strategies

3.1 Keyword Searching

3.1.1 Truncation and Wildcards

3.1.2 Combining Searches: AND, OR and NOT

3.1.3 Choosing Keywords

3.2 Person-based Searching

3.3 Institution-based Searching

3.4 Publication-based Searching

3.5 Citation Searching

3.6 Similarity Searching

4. Overall Search Strategy

5. Example Searches

5.1 Example Search 1 - Occupational Stress

5.2 Example Search 2 - a search for an unknown article

5.3 Example Search 3 - Web Search: our 'Last Best Hope'

6. Checklist and Hints & Tips

6.1 Search Checklist - for when you are stuck

6.2 Top Ten Web Tips

6.3 Top Ten BIDS Tips

7. Glossary and Connection Details

Last revision: 23rd October 1996