Literature Review: Readings

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Difference between narrative and systematic reviews:

• Urquhart, C. (2011). Meta-synthesis of research on information seeking behaviour. Information Research, 16(1). Retrieved from http://www.eric.ed.gov/PDFS/EJ925507.pdf
• Collins, J. and Fause, B. (2004) .Balancing the strengths of systematic and narrative reviews. Human Reproduction Update 11(2). Retrieved from http://humupd.oxfordjournals.org/content/11/2/103.full

Quality of Systematic Reviews

Delgado-Rodríguez, M., & Sillero-Arenas, M. (2018). Systematic review and meta-analysis. Medicina intensiva, 42(7), 444–453. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.medin.2017.10.003

Siddaway AP, Wood AM, Hedges LV. How to Do a Systematic Review: A Best Practice Guide for Conducting and Reporting Narrative Reviews, Meta-Analyses, and Meta-Syntheses. Annu Rev Psychol. 2019 Jan 4;70:747-770. doi: 10.1146/annurev-psych-010418-102803. Epub 2018 Aug 8. PMID: 30089228.

Pollock, A., & Berge, E. (2018). How to do a systematic review. International journal of stroke : official journal of the International Stroke Society, 13(2), 138–156. https://doi.org/10.1177/1747493017743796

Robson, R. C., Pham, B., Hwee, J., Thomas, S. M., Rios, P., Page, M. J., & Tricco, A. C. (2019). Few studies exist examining methods for selecting studies, abstracting data, and appraising quality in a systematic review. Journal of clinical epidemiology, 106, 121–135. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclinepi.2018.10.003

Greyson D, Rafferty E, Slater L, et al. Systematic review searches must be systematic, comprehensive, and transparent: a critique of Perman et al. BMC Public Health. 2019;19(1):153. Published 2019 Feb 4. doi:10.1186/s12889-018-6275-y

Yaffe J, Montgomery P, Hopewell S, Shepard LD. Empty reviews: a description and consideration of Cochrane systematic reviews with no included studies. PLoS One. 2012;7(5):e36626. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0036626

Salvador-Oliván JA, Marco-Cuenca G, Arquero-Avilés R. Errors in search strategies used in systematic reviews and their effects on information retrieval. J Med Libr Assoc. 2019;107(2):210‐221. doi:10.5195/jmla.2019.567

Price M. Letter to Editor regarding flawed method in Nursing Outlook systematic review. Nurs Outlook. 2017;65(1):6‐7. doi:10.1016/j.outlook.2016.10.002

Ioannidis JP. The Mass Production of Redundant, Misleading, and Conflicted Systematic Reviews and Meta-analyses. Milbank Q. 2016;94(3):485‐514. doi:10.1111/1468-0009.12210

Fox ZE, Williams AM, Blasingame MN, et al. Why equating all evidence searches to systematic reviews defies their role in information seeking. J Med Libr Assoc. 2019;107(4):613‐617. doi:10.5195/jmla.2019.707

Education

• Afolabi, M. (1992). The review of related literature in research. International Journal of Information and Library Research, 4 (1), 59-66.
• Boote, D., & Beile, P. (2005). Scholars before researchers: On the centrality of the dissertation literature review in dissertation preparation. Educational Researcher, 34(6), 3-15.
• Bruce, C. (1994a). Research students’ early experiences of the dissertation literature review. Studies in Higher Education, 19, 217-119.
• Bruce, C. (1994b). Supervising literature reviews. In O. Zuber-Skerritt & Y. Ryan (Eds.), Quality in postgraduate education (pp. 143-155). London: Kogan Page.
• Bruce, C. (1996). From neophyte to expert: Counting on reflection to facilitate complex conceptions of the literature review. In O. Zuber-Skerritt (Ed.), Frameworks for postgraduate education (pp. 239-253). Lismore, New South Wales: Southern Cross University.
• Cooper, H. (1988). Organizing knowledge syntheses: A taxonomy of literature reviews. Knowledge in Society, 1, 104-126.
• Fink, A. (2010). Conducting research literature reviews. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
• Green, R.,& Bowser, M. (2003, April). Evolution of the thesis literature review: A faculty-librarian partnership to guide off-campus research and writing. Paper presented at the Eleventh Annual Conference of the Association of College and Research Libraries, Charlotte, NC.
• Green, R. and M. Bowser. (2006) Observations from the field: Sharing a literature review rubric. Journal of Library Administration, 45, 1/2, 186-188. doi:10.1300/J111v45n01_10
• Krishnan, L. & Kathpalia, S. S. (2002). Literature reviews in student project reports. IEEE Transactions of Professional Communication, 45, 187-197.
• Lea, M. R., & Street, B. (1998). Student writing in higher education: An academic literacies approach. Studies in Higher Education, 23, 157-172.
• Miller, W. L., & Crabtree, B. F. (2004). Depth interviewing. In S. N. Hesse-Biber & P. Leavy (Eds.), Approaches to qualitative research (pp. 185-202). New York: Oxford University Press.
• Morner, C. J. (1993). A test of library research skills for education doctoral students. Unpublished doctoral dissertation, Boston College, Boston.
• Nimon, M. (2002). Preparing to teach “the literature review": Staff and student views of the value of a compulsory course in research education. Australian Academic & Research Libraries, 33, 168-179.
• Qian, J. (2003). Chinese graduate students’ experiences with writing a literature review. Unpublished master’s thesis, Queen’s University at Kingston, Ontario.
• Riehl, C., Larson, C. L., Short, P. M., & Reitzug, U. C. (2000). Reconceptualizing research and scholarship in educational administration: Learning to know, knowing to do, doing to learn. Educational Administration Quarterly, 36, 391-427.
• Rumrill, P. D., & Fitzgerald, S. M. (2001). Using narrative literature reviews to build a scientific knowledge base. Work, 16, 165-170.
• Swales, J. M., & Lindemann, S. (2002). Teaching the literature review to international graduate students. In A. M. Johns (Ed.), Genre in the classroom: Multiple perspectives. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

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