Research Service

Experience and Facilities

Here at Aardstorm we have significant experience of searching the internet and other source for information on a variety of topics. We have staff educated to degree level, and also our own private library, with a range of books on a diverse range of subjects. Our personal interests include science, engineering, transport, the natural world, and history, but we are willing to look for information on any topic.

Internet Search

Besides our own library, the internet will be our primary source of information to satisfy your request. When we receive your request for a quotation for our research services, we wil do an initial internet search, to discover how easy (or otherwise) the information you require will be to find. Based on this, we will then produce our estimate of how long it will take us to locate the information to the depth your require.

If you then commission us to find the information for you, we will then do a more detailed and extensive search for sites containing your request information. We will endeavour to find several independent sites that contain your information, in an attempt to ascertain the correctness and reliability of the information we have found.

Literature Search

If we have books relevant to the information that you request us to look for, then we will automatically include them in our search, at no extra charge. We can also look for your information in public libraries, museums, and other locations. However, this will involve us in personally visiting the establishments concerned, and will therefore incur additional charges to cover our travelling costs. These additional fees will be included as an option in our quotation, so that you can decide whether we are to include these sources of information in our search.

Search Results

Once we have found the information that you require, we will, as a minimum, supply you with a detailed list of the sources (web sites, web pages, and books, etc.) that we have found. For each source we will give an indication of the amount and quality of the information it contains. We will also provide a list of other sources that we tried and initially appeared to be relevant, but proved to be inadequate, so that you can also avoid them.

If you do not commission us to produce any other form of document from the information that we find, then we will provide you with a short summary of that information. In this situation, all of our search results we be supplied to you in the form of an e-mail, possibly with attachments. If you require the results as some form of more extensive document, or on paper, then you can commission us to produce this using our associated authoring service.

Fees

The standard fees for our research service are as follows:

 

Note that the library visit fees are in addition to the normal search fee for those days, and depend on the distance we have to travel.

Once we have provided you with a quotation for our work, the quoted fee will be firm and fixed; if we take more or less time than expected to locate your information, the price you pay will not change, unless you change your requirements.

Aardstorm is not currently registered for VAT, and therefore cannot charge VAT. Once we are registered, the fees above will be the VAT exclusive rates.