A literature review synthesizes and analyzes previous research in a field to inform an audience and establish background knowledge. Learn the parts and how to write one.

Are you writing a literature review as part of a final year project, dissertation, or thesis, or as a standalone piece of work? This page will work through a process of organising and synthesising ...

A review matrix can help you more easily spot differences and similarities between journal articles about a research topic. While they may be helpful in any discipline, review matrices are especially ...

Elicit aims to develop a tool to automate the more tedious parts of the scientific literature review process.

Journal of Education for Library and Information Science, Vol. 53, No. 3 ((Summer) July 2012), pp. 176-188 (13 pages) A review of the professional literature on writing skills of graduate students ...