Traditional Research - Print

Currency

• as up-to-date as the date of publication
• frequency of updates - depends on the publication

Ease of Use

• depends on the type of tool, e.g. index, encyclopedia, etc.

Authority

• established history
• established publishers
• trained indexers following specific rules

Search Terms

• "controlled vocabulary" - specific search terms that usually work
• thesaurus - source of "controlled vocabulary"

Search Strategy

• single point of entry - one word at a time