Literature Review 101: How To Find High-Quality Literature (Quickly) - 6 Steps + Free Template

Learn how to find the most relevant, high-quality resources for your literature review, as quickly as possible. In this video, David Phair (PhD) and Peter Quella (PhD) explain how to approach the first stage of the literature review process, the literature sourcing stage. They cover a little bit of everything - including how to develop a literature search strategy, how to use academic databases and important Boolean operators to optimize your approach, and how to strategically skim read articles as quickly as possible.

Outline - Literature Review Sourcing
00:00 Introduction
00:56 Develop a clear search strategy
08:22 Understand how to use different types of literature correctly
12:04 Evaluate the quality of each potential resource
16:54 Use a reference manager and literature catalog
22:50 Read as widely as possible and strategically skim each article
29:44 Keep your golden thread front of mind throughout the process
33:47 Recap & outro

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