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Before you carry out your first experiment in the lab, you would be well advised to spend some time in the library—and online—doing a thorough literature search of your research topic. Perhaps you worked on a project in this same field as an undergraduate, or think you are familiar with the subject area because it is related to other work you have done.
The history of science knows scores of instances where an investigator was in the possession of all the important facts for a new theory, but simply failed to ask the right questions.
—Ernst Mayr
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Gosling, P., Noordam, B. (2022). Searching the Scientific Literature. In: Mastering Your PhD. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-11417-5_13
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