The "generator" below is designed to help you think about the essential parts of your topic, identify additional terms, and construct a search statement.
Lack of search success seems to go wrong in two opposite directions: either too many results but they aren't focused on the topic, or not many results at all.
Consider:
- Using synonyms
- Using broader terms
- Narrowing the search with appropriate other terms
- That the defaults of the search interface may not be as you expect; words may be searched as a phrase and not individual words
- Looking at the indexing terms of search results that are good matches
- Using limits/filters/facets in the database