New Year, New Release (2024)

I am delighted to announce a new release of 2Dsearch, which includes a new feature we’re particularly excited about: an automated Search Strategy Generator. All you need do is enter your research question (in natural language) and 2Dsearch will identify the facets, offer suitable keyword suggestions and build your search for you, directly on the canvas.

This is great news for students (and many researchers) who, let’s face it, generally hate doing literature reviews and often avoid even trying to formulate a robust, accurate search strategy. But now, as long as you can articulate your research question, you’ll have a starting point which you can refine and modify, simply using drag and drop. And for the rest of us who are happy to create our own finely crafted strategies, well, who doesn't like a head start for inspiration (or even an automated second opinion)?

What this means is that you can now use 2Dsearch to automatically generate and execute a single visual search across a multiple databases, and benefit from automated translations for many more. There’s lots more in this release, including many UX improvements and bug fixes, so we hope you enjoy checking it out. As always, 2Dsearch is free to use, whether you’re a student/researcher, an information professional or a recruiter/sourcing professional. We have more in the pipeline for the next release, so if you’d like to help shape this or have comments or suggestions then do let us know. We’d be delighted to hear from you. https://www.2dsearch.com/