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| Stephen Potter |
| Chapter 7 - Doing a
lterature review |
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| This chapter refers to the book Doing
a Literature Search - Click
Here |
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| CAPLITS provides advice on
organising and structuring the writing of a literature
review - Click
Here |
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| The Web of Science provides
access to current and retrospective multidisciplinary
information from thousands of research journals as well
as a unique search method, cited reference searching -
Click
Here |
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| Google Desktop - helps with
searching files, emails and documents on your computer
and the web - Click
Here |
| Another desktop search tool with multilingual
support is ISYS:Desktop - Click
Here |
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| For guidance on Bibliographic Software
there is a useful page on Glasgow University’s site
- Click
Here |
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| A USA website provides a comprehensive
list of bibliographic software packages and usefully provides
links to where you can get further details - Click
Here |
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| For guidance on what to include for
database searches see section 5.2.2.1 of the Cochrane
Handbook - Click
Here |
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| Advice on Citing References
can be found at several university sites. For example
Bournemouth University has a ‘Citing References’
site in its Academic Services - Click
Here |
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| Do check if your own University has
an advice site and any policy on reference citation method. |
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| The following two papers show how
referencing errors can lead to misleading research conclusions: |
| Harzing, A.-W. (2002) 'Are our referencing
errors undermining our scholarship and credibility? The
case of expatriate failure rates'. Journal of Organizational
Behavior, 23, 127-148. |
| Lance, C. E., Butts, M. M., and Michels,
L. C. (2006) 'The sources of four commonly reported cutoff
criteria: What did they really say?' Organizational
Research Methods, (9), 202-220. |
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