Literature Review Tips & Tools
Ellen's Top 5 Tips
Health Sciences Librarian Ellen Lutz made the following video and handout for graduate nursing students, but the tips apply to other disciplines as well. (Although Ellen is happy to meet with students from any department/program to discuss methodology, for assistance with keywords and database recommendations, it is best to contact your subject librarian.)
- Ellen’s Top 5 Tips for Doing Literature SearchesDocument listing 5 tips discussed in video
Exporting Large Results Sets to Citation Managers
Here is my handout with instructions on how to export large results sets to be able to import into Citation Managers and remove duplicate items. I also made a video showing how to export results from PubMed, EBSCOhost databases, Web of Science, and ProQuest database.
NOTE: This procedure is also the one to follow to get files with results to upload to Rayyan for screening articles.
- Exporting Large Result Sets to Citation Managers and Removing DuplicatesGeneral instructions for getting a large number of results from databases (including PubMed, CINAHL, PsycInfo, Web of Science, and ERIC) into citation managers, and links to how to remove duplicates in Zotero and Mendeley
Exporting Large Results Sets to Excel
Here is my handout with instructions on how to export large results sets to be able to import into Excel and remove duplicate items. I also made a video showing how to export results from PubMed, EBSCOhost databases, Web of Science, and ProQuest database.
(NOTE: I am still working on editing the CC transcript for this video!)
- Exporting Large Result Sets to Excel and Removing DuplicatesInstructions for getting a large number of results from databases (including PubMed, CINAHL, PsycInfo, Web of Science, and ERIC) into Excel, and how to remove dupcliates.
Literature Review Examples
Most academic research articles will contain a brief literature review. However, to see examples of more comprehensive ones, here are some good places to start.
- Annual ReviewsAnnual Reviews are published on a variety of topics.
- UMass Amherst Dissertations and ThesesLinks to ScholarWorks, the UMass Amherst institutional repository, where our student dissertations and theses are stored.
- Writing Scientific Manuscripts from the Journal of Young InvestigatorsPart III is all about Writing a Literature Review
VIDEO - Literature Reviews: An Overview for Graduate Students
This video from North Carolina State University Libraries give an overview of the Literature Review process. (about 9 1/2 minutes)
VIDEO - Lit Review & Meta-Analysis
This video from the University of Texas at San Antonio Libraries is directed at Psychology students, but gives some examples of how to organize & present the results of a literature review. (about 4 minutes)
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