What Strategies Do You Use When You Research?

The strategies I use when I research depend entirely upon what I am researching. Back in college, when I was completing my thesis for my undergraduate degree, my research was grounded mainly in academic journals and dusty old academic texts found way down in the bowels of our library basement. I used Minerva, and other internet search engines to find these texts, both in the Colgate library (where I did my undergrad) and through inter-library loan from other schools in the region.

Now that I am in education, the research I do is much more web-directed. I feel that because education is a much more practical field than the philosophy and spiritual poetry of the world's religions, my research too has followed suit. It's quicker, more innovative, and probably more effective.