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Literature review

Starting your literature review
This guide is designed to offer guidance for completing a literature review, and will link you to resources, techniques, and approaches to conducting your literature search and writing a literature review.

Request Research Advice
The Library offers individual research consultations and enquiry assistance to work with you on your research needs.
Ask the Library
The Library's chat service available 7 days a week.

Before conducting your literature search it is recommended that you request a research consultation for assistance with:

Later, during your candidature we can assist with:

LibrarySearch
Lists Library holdings from different sources; such as: books, journal articles, newspapers, streaming videos and so forth.
Google Scholar
Includes journal articles, conference papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts, and technical reports.
Databases
Collections of e-journals, e-books, newspapers, videos, images and other material.
Subject guides
Showcase the variety of resources you can access in the Library and online.

Research guides
Topics include: Theses, Publishing, Research Data Management, Research Impact, Researcher Profiles and ORCID iDs, Staying current with your research, Systematic Reviews.
Workshops and presentations
The Library offers free workshops to research candidates under the PhD Up program. In addition, there is a Research Spotlight series with sessions presented by librarians and guest speakers.
Research skills for HDR candidates
Online modules covering a range of topics, including: Researching your literature review, Setting up your researcher profile, Choosing where to publish and Are you being cited?
Graduate Researcher KnowHow
This website gives helpful information to assist the research student on their journey. It covers the requisite skills needed to create and publish your research.

Reference Managers - EndNote, Zotero and Mendeley
This guide provides an introduction to three common Reference Managers - EndNote, Zotero and Mendeley. It also provides a comparison guide and instructions to help get you started.
Referencing
Easy Cite provides information and examples on a variety of referencing styles used at RMIT.
Document Delivery
Make a request for material not held at RMIT University Library.
Copyright advice
Contact the Library if ever in doubt over material you are using.