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Seeking the right information: Refine the search results
After performing a search, you need to evaluate the results as the research process is an iterative one, that is you do a search, select the best reference, and then search again using the knowledge you gained from your previous search.
At this stage your goals are to:
know if you were able to retrieve information sources relevant to your research needs by matching your keywords in title, abstract, and subject, or skimming the table of contents
manipulate the list of results to get the most appropriate sources
Explore the image below -- mouseover the targets to learn more about the different ways of refining your result list.
