Suppose your topic is defining the market potential for low cost fuel cells. A good place to start is the database Business Source Premier

Search Results follow, it found only 1 result. Don't give up! There's a better way to search.

Let's go back and modify our search. Drop "low cost" since that may restrict the search too much. However, searching "fuel cells" alone may give us too many unwanted results, so restrict your words to appear in the headline and first paragraph only, instead of the full text of the document. Consider adding the word "future" or forecasting" to the search strategy, in an effort to narrow the search and find more articles applicable to the topic. The PDF links have the full articles. If there is no PDF link, you will have to search the library's online catalog by the source title (journal title).

As we scroll through the results, we see more articles on the future use of fuel cells.

Your next step is to try this search in other databases to get more information. Specifically Factiva, Proquest and Lexis-Nexis. These are described on the main BEE 489 library handout. For more technical information, go to INSPEC and IEEExplore

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