Conducting research literature reviews : from paper to the Internet

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Title:

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:

1. Reviewing the Literature: Why? For Whom? How? -- 2. Screening for Feasibility and Quality: Part 1 - Research Design and Sampling -- 3. Screening for Feasibility and Quality: Part 2 - Data Collection, Interventions, Analysis, Results, and Conclusions -- 4. Collecting Information From the Literature -- 5. What Did You Find? Summarizing Results Descriptively and Statistically.

Subject Term:

Research -- Methodology.

Research -- Evaluation.

Bibliography -- Methodology.

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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This book shows how to interpret and analyze published and unpublished research literature.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the most appropriate databases; including supplementing computer and Web-based searches; identifying and dealing with unpublished studies; setting inclusion and exclusion criteria; justifying methods for reviewing only the `highest quality′ literature; preparing a structured literature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.