Search strategy

If you get too many results to view/use you could: 

• Search more specifically by using more specific search terms
• Add an extra aspect to your search (with AND)
• Limit your search to certain years of publication
• Change the sorting order: sort by relevance but also try year of publication or, if possible, the number of citations
• Change to a different (subject related) database that better fits your topic

If you do not get enough results, you could:

• Check your spelling
• Use less specialist terms
• Broaden your search by adding alternatives for your search terms in an OR relationship (for instance segregation OR discrimination)
• Broaden your search by including word varieties: either in an OR relation (for instance: segregation OR segregated) or by truncating your search terms, if allowed by the search engine (for instance: segregat*);
• Broaden your search by leaving out an aspect/variable
• Adjust/accentuate your search terms by using the provided keywords and/or thesaurus of a specific search engine/database 
• Use other search engines and databases