CHERNOBYL: THE FACTS

In these Search Strategies, searchers from different countries and professions are given a question to answer, a budget of £50 and a time in which to produce their report. We hope that these blow‐by‐blow accounts, together with the hints and tips picked up along the way, will help all the readers of Online & CDROM Review to develop their own search strategies. Journalists are more and more coming to use online services (see Roland Stan‐bridge's article ‘Journalists begin to embrace online databases’, Information World Review, December 1992) and here Mr Stanbridge gives a journalist's account of tracking down the elusive facts surrounding the Chernobyl disaster.