What is a literature review
A literature review refers to an examination of academic sources about a particular subject matter. It gives you a comprehensive understanding of the present knowledge, enabling you to recognise relevant theories, methodologies, and areas of inadequacy in the current research that you can employ later in your paper, thesis, or dissertation topic (Combes 2023),
Conducting your literature review
It's time to start looking for your literature review once you've decided on your search concepts and terms. Before considering citation searching, we advise you to conduct a search utilising a pertinent subject database.
Increasing your ability to look for literature will enable you to:
- Create a targeted search to locate pertinent data on a subject.
- Examine several facets of a subject.
- Save time and search more effectively.
- Don't forget to reference your sources
Books on literature review
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Succeeding with Your Literature Review: a Handbook for Students
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ISBN: 9780335243693Publication Date: 2012 -
The Student's Guide to Research Ethics
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ISBN: 9780335240166Publication Date: 2010-01-01 -
The Dissertation Journey
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ISBN: 9781506373317Publication Date: 2018-10-01 -
Introduction to Research Methods in Education
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ISBN: 9781446260739Publication Date: 2014-12-12 -
Conducting Undergraduate Research in Education
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ISBN: 9781032128535Publication Date: 2022-02-01
Databases for literature review
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JSTOR This link opens in a new window JSTOR is a highly selective digital library of academic content in many formats and disciplines. The collections include top peer-reviewed scholarly journals as well as respected literary journals, academic monographs, research reports from trusted institutes, and primary sources.
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Taylor & Francis Journals This link opens in a new window Taylor & Francis Group publishes quality peer-reviewed journals under the Routledge, Taylor & Francis and Dove Medical Press imprints.
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ScienceDirect This link opens in a new windowExplore scientific, technical, and medical research on ScienceDirect. Over 3.3 million articles on ScienceDirect are open access. Articles published open access are peer-reviewed and made freely available for everyone to read, download and reuse in line with the user license displayed on the article.
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Emerald Insights This link opens in a new windowEmerald Insights is one of the world's leading digital-first publishers, commissioning, curating and showcasing research that can make a real difference. Emerald brings access to high-quality, journals, books, case studies, and a growing collection of open access content.
Literature review cycle
The literature review cycle - Image (University of Sheffield)
Steps in writing a literature review
