The document provides information and tips for conducting a literature review, including how to find relevant sources, search databases effectively using keywords and boolean operators, evaluate sources, and take notes. It emphasizes starting with a broad topic and narrowing it down, searching different databases and following citations. The document also discusses the purpose of a literature review in bringing the reader up to date on current knowledge and identifying areas for future research.

1. by Aurelie Gandour

5. Your Personal Librarian
Helen Oliver
holiver@tavi-port.ac.uk
020 8938 2318

6. Online Help
• The Moodle course for
Information Skills
• A Help Blog with lots of info
• The Twitter account for
Information Skills: @iSkillsTavi
• The library’s main Twitter
account: @tapchat
• The library’s Facebook:
Tavilibrary

7. The Literature Review
A literature review aims to
review the critical points of
current knowledge
on a particular topic.
The goal is to
bring the reader up to date
with current literature on a topic and
to form the basis for future research
that may be needed in the area.

8. Product vs Process

9. What the process entails
Concluding on the research
possibilities on the subject
Writing up the review
(while citing accurately
the documents you found)
Reading, taking notes
Searching the literature
Determining good keywords
Finding a relevant topic

10. Number 1 Tip: get a notebook

11. Finding your Topic

12. Start broad, narrow it down later

13. Gathering your first leads

14. Just ask!

15. Go through your Reading List

16. Subject Guides
• A current snapshot
• Specific subject areas
• Videos, podcasts,
newsreels, scholarly
articles, current
articles from
journals…
• New information is
being fed onto the
pages hourly, daily
or weekly.

17. Staff Publications
• A repository that
collects together
the work of
clinical and
academic staff
• Simple records
• But often full-text
• Follow us online!

18. Unwinding the thread…
YOU SHOULD CHECK
• Papers from the
same author
• Papers in the
same journal
• This paper’s
bibliography

19. Checking the Catalogue
• Find physical documents:
books, dvds, theses,
pamphlets…
• And eBooks!
• Put documents on hold
• Make suggestions

20. The One-Stop-Shop for Journals
• JOURNALS, not articles
• Find them, access them

21. Library vs Shibboleth accounts

22. Library vs Shibboleth accounts

23. Library vs Shibboleth accounts

24. Library vs Shibboleth accounts
Library Login:
Allows you to log into the
library's catalogue to:
• See what documents are
on your card;
• Renew them;
• Put documents on hold;
• Ask for interlibrary loans;

25. Library vs Shibboleth accounts
Library Login:
Allows you to log into the
library's catalogue to:
• See what documents are
on your card;
• Renew them;
• Put documents on hold;
• Ask for interlibrary loans;
Shibboleth Account:
• Log into Moodle
• Access your reading-list
• Access online resources
such as:
– E-books;
– Online journals;
– Bibliographic
databases...

26. What to do if we don’t have it
• Check the One-Stop-Shop for journals;
• Google it;
• Send an e-mail to the author;
• Ask for an inter-library loan (cost: £6);
• Go to the British Library (photocopies:
£0.25 a page).

27. Time for a quizz!

28. Time for a quizz!
• How would you
search for an
eBook?
• Where would you
look for a thesis
written by a staff
member?
• How can you access
a bunch of articles
on a particular
subject?

29. Let’s take a break!

30. Zeroing on your topic

31. Finding specific documents
on your topic

34. Back to the catalogue
• The library’s catalogue
• The British Library’s
• The Library of Congress’
• …

35. Bibliographic Databases
WHAT ARE THEY?
A list of sources of information
like:
Journals, Articles, Books...
These information sources are
shown as records.
Each record contains everything
you need to know about the
information source.
Sometimes you only have the
record.
Sometimes you can directly access
the article in Full Text.

36. Bibliographic Databases
HOW TO ACCESS THEM?
Library website > databases
Look them all up to decide
on the ones you should
use!

37. Doing a Literature Search

38. Write down your topic
AN EXAMPLE:
Parents’ experience of receiving
an autism diagnosis for their child.

39. Identify important keywords
AN EXAMPLE:
Parents’ experience of receiving
an autism diagnosis for their child.

40. Find variations on keywords
You should think of:
• synonyms,
• plurals,
• verbs / nouns,
• US spelling…

41. Find variations on keywords
Parents
Parent
Parenting
Parental attitude
Autism
Autistic spectrum
Aspergers syndrome
Diagnosis
Diagnostic process
Child
Children
Childhood

42. Now, it’s time to search!
When searching, it’s
best to start very
large and to narrow
down step by step…

43. First, a useful tool
BOOLEAN
OPERATORS
Link!

44. Know you know what you want:
Parents
Parent
Parenting
Parental attitude
Autism
Autistic spectrum
Aspergers syndrome
Diagnosis
Diagnostic
process
Child
Children
Childhood
OR
OR
OR
OR
OR
OR
OR
OR
AN
D
AN
D AN
D

45. Let’s search each group

46. Group 1
Parents
Parent
Parenting
Parental attitude
Parent*
* = truncation symbol

47. Mind where you put the *!
Psychia*
Psychiatry
Psychiatric
Psychiatrist

48. Mind where you put the *!
Psych*
Psychosis
Psychotic
Psychedelic
Psychology
Psychologist
Psychological
Psychopathy
Psychosomatic
Psychotherapy
Psychopathology
Psychoanalysis
Psychiatry
Psychiatric
Psychiatrist
Psyche, etc.

49. Group 2
Autism
Autistic spectrum
Aspergers syndrome
Autis* OR
Aspergers

50. Group 3
Diagnosis
Diagnostic process
Diagnos*

51. Group 4
Child
Children
Childhood
Characteristic of
the group
studied
Limiters

52. Link it!
Parent* Autis* OR Diagnos*
Aspergers
AN
D
AN
D

53. Too many results? Limit!
USEFUL LIMITERS:
• Linked full-text
• Publication year
• Age
• Gender
• Methodology
• Tests &
Measures

54. Exercise:
Tips and Tools for a Good Search

55. Got something good? Save it!

56. Your EBSCOhost account
TO SAVE:
• Your searches
• Your references

57. Unwinding the thread…
YOU SHOULD CHECK
• Papers from the
same author
• Papers in the
same journal
• This paper’s
bibliography
• Papers that
reference this
paper in their
bibliography

58. See you soon!
And if need be, send me your questions!

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