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What is a Literature Study?
An overview of what has been studiedMore than a summaryGroups and organizes resultsIdentifies room for improvement
When to do a Literature Study?
At the start of a projectAt the start of a paperAt the start of a thesis
Why write a Literature Review?
To define and limit the problemTo place your study in a contextTo avoid duplicationTo evaluate existing methods
We cannot do research alone!
Searching: Where to begin?
Determine your topicWrite a set of keywordsDetermine the most relevant search enginesEngineering -> IEEEMathematics -> SpringerLinkMedical -> PubMedLife Sciences -> ScienceDirectGeneral -> Google Scholar
Information Sources
How useful are the following sources?Journal ArticlesBooksConference ProceedingsGovernment/corporate reportsTheses and dissertationsInternetMagazines
http://web.pdx.edu/~bertini/pdf/literature_review.pdf
Exclusion/Inclusion
Do not search for everything!Select a date rangeDesign a fixed set of keywordsUse advanced search optionsLimit your search to specific topicsLimit your search to recent publicationsSearch in the relevant search engines
Backward Searching
Backward Searching: Find earlier referencesTry to guess the indexFirst, try specific indexSecond, try Google ScholarThird, try Google
Forward Searching
Backward searching leads to older references
How to find new references?http://scholar.google.com/http://apps.webofknowledge.com
Search on names of authors on this topic
Reading the references
How to read references?Start with the titleRead the abstractLook at the imagesRead the conclusionRead the introductionScan the referencesScan through the rest of the textWrite a small summary
Managing the references
How to manage these references?Use a reference manager:http://www.mendeley.com/
Write brief summariesGroup similar topics togetherAdd Tags
Organize your references
Create a concept mapMindJet MindManagerXmind...
Group similar methods/resultsOrder references logicallyCollect Quotes
Start Writing
Write down section titlesWrite down keywords in the right order
Group keywords into paragraphsAdd text to the paragraphs
... And use your reference manager!
Links
Mendeley: http://www.mendeley.com Mind Mappers: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_concept-_
and_mind-mapping_software Google Scholar: http://scholar.google.com PubMed: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed ScienceDirect: https://www.sciencedirect.com/ IEEExplorer: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org SpringerLink: http://link.springer.com/ Anki (FlashCards) http://ankisrs.net/