Search Strategy for Google Scholar

Search Strategy for Google Scholar

Search Planning Worksheet

Topic:

The extinction event at the Permo-Triassic (PT) boundary with a focus on articles that mention the physical extinction of life, NOT the meteor impact theory.

Search Engine(s):

Google Scholar

Important Ideas:

	Topic 1		AND	Topic 2		AND	Topic 3
OR	Permo-Triassic Boundary PT Boundary			Extinction Mass Death Lifeless			Physical

Also, NOT meteor impact theory, and perhaps restrict publication dates to include only more recent articles.

Searching Style:

List terms in near plain text format, like Permo-Triassic Extinction not meteor impact

Commands to enter:

Combinations of the above to find other articles that may not have come up in the Rutgers GeoRef database, and they search for them in the correct database.