searching information in a scientific environment

Being a scientist by heart, I try to place searching for information in the context of scientific research. So beyond mere operating the systems.
My way of presenting searching and retrieving (scientific) information is by asking questions, which combined will create a search strategy:

1. What is the topic you need information about? Which question do you want to answer?
2. What kind of information are you looking for? Which document type? Introductory, numerical, bibliographic, design, patent, specialist, encyclopedic, book,,,, etc?
3. Where are you going to do your search? Which database, search engine and why?
4. Which terms are you going to use, depending on your information type and your database specifics.
5. Which tools -general or specialist- are you using? Depending on the system: fields and operators.
6. What is your exact query? Interpretation depends on the system, thus precision is recommended, for later referral.
7. What is the reliability of the information found? Can it meet the requirements in an academic environment?
8. Evaluate your own behavior. Did you find sufficient information; did you answer your questions? Did you change the question? Did you learn new terms? Did you do double work, find duplicate results, used the right databases? Had to dig through huge piles of irrelevant results? Could you have done everything smarter?
9. Document your results, because you will be accountable in an academic environment.