Keep in mind this website is dedicated to providing you some of this experience. Our research articles should suggest directions to look. This FAQ should help you improve your research skills, but there are limits to what we can accomplish. At some point you simply must sit down with the Kompass Directory, or the Gale Directory of Databases, or browse the Australian Bureau of Statistics library, and become familiar with getting to all the relevant information. A researcher also needs much experience with searching electronic databases with complex research queries - a difficult task only made better with practice.
Internet connections work better at odd times of the day.
As some information comes from international resources, and the Internet is cheaper than direct dialing, researchers drink coffee. We also annoy our families, work too much on computers and have bad eyesight. There is very little mystery about professional research. Lots of people are experienced in different aspects of this field. The field is much too large to be an expert in all its aspects.