Reviewing the Literature 2 May 2008
Sources Books Journal Articles Unpublished (academic) papers Dissertations Internet
Search How do you know what is important and what is not? Journal citation reports ISI (Web of Science) Google scholar Google books
Literature Review by Others Published literature reviews can help you by identifying important works and also by framing the parameters of current and past scholarship. Textbooks Book reviews in journals
Tough-to-Find Literature Conference papers Research centres Dataset bibliographies Example: ICPSR Bibliography of Data-Related Literature. More than 24,000 citations of known published and unpublished works resulting from analyses of data held in the ICPSR data archive. Example 2: CSES bibliography
Browse Browse favourite journals, ie. through JSTOR Browse through conference proceedings, ie. American Political Science Association (APSA) Authors’ personal websites, ie. see pippanorris.com