Literature Review
The Literature Review: A Few Tips On Conducting It (University of Toronto)
Literature Reviews (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
How to Write a Literature Review (UCSC)
The Literature Review (Deakin)
Databases
Try Search@UW first
This resource is beta, by next fall it will include books and have many additional features, but not every resource is included in Search@UW*
For specific databases choose a Custom Search catergory or review all resources by title in Find Resources.
These categories are particularly relevant to these classes.
These databases will be of particular use:
Catalog of U.S. Government Publications
Lexis-Nexis Academic
This is an extremelydense and somewhat difficult resources to use.
For example to polling information ope the database
In the left column, select Sources button, the select find sources and search for Gallup Poll
in all publication types. Select Gallup Poll News Service and Gallup Poll Tuesday Briefings,
and click on the OK-continue button which is on the right side of the screen. At this point enter
your search terms.
Wall Street Journal (Historical)
Web of Knowledge (ISI)
Materials not searchable in Search@UW
Not included in Search@UW: Articles and more:
Non-bibliographic databases, for example:
Ancestry.com
American Fact Finder
Demographics Now
Mediamark Reporter
Polling the Nation
Historic newspapers:
New York Times, Wall Street Journal and others
Lexis Nexis content:
Only the law review content from Lexis Nexis Academic is included. Regional, state and local newspapers, business content, legal cases are not.
Users will see a lot of full text from LNA because it provides the underlying full text for references from other databases.
Proquest Congressional
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