Conducting research literature reviews : from paper to the Internet

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Title:

Conducting research literature reviews : from paper to the Internet

Author:

Fink, Arlene.

ISBN:

9780761909040

9780761909057

Personal Author:

Fink, Arlene.

Publication Information:

Thousand Oaks : Sage Publications, c1998.

Physical Description:

xi, 265 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Contents:

Reviewing the literature : Why? For whom? How? -- Screening for feasibility and quality. Pt. 1. Research design and sampling. Pt. 2. Data collection, interventions, analysis, results, and conclusions -- Collecting information from the literature -- What did you find? Summarizing results descriptively and statistically.

Subject Term:

Research -- Methodology.

Research -- Evaluation.

Bibliography -- Methodology.

Recherche -- Méthodologie

Recherche -- Évaluation

Bibliographie -- Méthodologie

Bibliografieën.

Literatuuronderzoek.

Electronic Access:

Publisher description http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0656/98008873-d.html
Table of contents only http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0656/98008873-t.html
Contributor biographical information http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0734/98008873-b.html

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Summary

This book shows how to interpret and analyze published and unpublished research literature.

The author unravels the intricacies of: selecting questions to maximize the efficiency of the review; identifying subject headings and key words for electronic searches; identifying the most appropriate databases; including supplementing computer and Web-based searches; identifying and dealing with unpublished studies; setting inclusion and exclusion criteria; justifying methods for reviewing only the `highest quality′ literature; preparing a structured literature abstraction form; ensuring the reliability and validity of the review; synthesizing and reporting results; conducting and evaluating descriptive literature reviews; and, how to understand and evaluate the principles of meta-analysis.