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Literature reviews

Information providing guidance on starting a literature review, including resources, techniques and approaches to searching the literature and writing the review.

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The Library has a team of Teaching and Research Librarians and Academic Skills Advisors available to assist staff and students in the use of library services and resources. In terms of literature reviews, we can:

  • provide advice on search terms and strategies
  • recommend databases and other sources to search
  • troubleshoot reference manager issues
  • understand how to write your literature review, including how to structure and style your literature review

Strategies and resources for searching the literature

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Strategies and resources for searching the literature

This module is part of the Research and Writing Skills for Academic and Graduate Researchers. It covers key resources to use when literature searching, and the features of developing an effective search strategy. There are learning activities to help you with some practical searching.


Book cover attribution: "Research and Writing Skills for Academic and Graduate Researchers" by RMIT University Library is licensed under CC BY-NC 4.0. Cover design by Dr. Lisa Cianci. Artwork 'Luwaytini' by Mark Cleaver, Palawa (underlayed), All rights reserved. Cover image: Human Skills by Vicons Design from Noun Project.