Social welfare 282 : Counducting a Literature Review
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The document discusses conducting a literature review and identifies its importance for research papers, publications, grants and identifying best practices. It notes the vast amount of peer-reviewed research being published annually and challenges in social welfare research including its multidisciplinary nature and use of statistics and policy sources. Tips are provided for effective database searching techniques and managing citations.
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Social welfare 282 : Counducting a Literature Review
- 1. Social Welfare 282 Conducting a Literature Review Susan Edwards seedwards@berkeley.edu Head, Social Sciences Division 10/03/2016
- 2. Why Do A Literature Review? Explore the research that has come before you, and identify: • core research in the field • experts in the subject area • methodology you may want to use (or avoid) • gaps in the literature -- or where your research would fit in
- 3. Required for: • Research papers • Publication • Grants • Identifying best practices in field
- 4. Why Can’t We Just Use Google? (Or Search JSTOR?) Only Librarians Like to Search – Everyone Else Just Likes to Find! -- Roy Tennant
- 5. Research Literature Is Vast 28,100 peer-reviewed journals in English (6450 non-English-language journals)* Publishing about 2.5 million articles a year.
- 6. Precision vs. Recall Databases help increase precision – relevance of results Often include: • Abstracts • Citations, and cited by • Link to fulltext or request via ILL. • Advanced Search Techniques
- 7. Database Searching Boolean Searching OR, AND, NOT
- 8. More Phrases In “Quotation Marks” Limit by Date Truncation (truncat*) – i.e., homeless*, teen* Common fields: Author, title of journal, etc. Special fields– research method, age of subject Controlled Vocabulary – Thesaurus
- 9. Challenges in SocW Research • Multidisciplinary • Policy informed • Uses statistics • Evidence-based (What has been tried? Does it work?)
- 10. Multidisciplinary 1,213 Databases – WHICH to Use? (Pilots, HAPI, etc.) – HOW to Use?
- 11. • GreenBook • Census • Statistical Abstract of the United States • Many More… Statistical Sources
- 12. Policy Research Congressional (NOT free – surprise!) Legal (Ditto) NGO/Think Tanks/Policy Institutes Online Guide
- 13. Evidence Based Research Guide for Finding Evidence Based Research Thanks to http://www.slideshare.net/ileggat/vu-library-evidencebased-practice-workshop
- 14. Citations • Why cite? • How to cite using APA 6th? • Software to make it easier: Zotero, RefWorks, EndNote, etc.