In an SLR, is there some good strategy to break great search strings in order to make the resultant parts accepted in the search engines?

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Dalton Cézane Gomes Valadares

I chose to use only search engines that support my whole search string... This way, I used IEEE, ACM, Wiley, Scopus and Springer.

Michael Gusenbauer

Hi! I guess, before you start breaking search queries you might look into selecting a search system that fits your requirements. Here is an overview of 28 search systems and their qualities/limitations (including query lenght): Article Which Academic Search Systems are Suitable for Systematic Re...

I hope this helps!