1. Note key words of your topic
2. Use those words in your search statement
3. If you have a phrase or a name of an organization, put them in "". For instance, "American Cancer Society"
4. Boolean Logic helps connect different concepts or terms. An example will be American Cancer Society AND funding, if you wanted to know about how they are funded.
5. Remember to limit to full text. This way you will get full articles. Some databases have abstracts or summaries only. Some have a mix.
6. If you get a lot of results, you can add limiters to your search such as date range.