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Literature Reviews for Education

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Find a resource that's perfect for your topic but we don't have it, or it's currently checked out?

Learn about your options for requesting materials, including how to place an Interlibrary Loan (ILL) request for print books or scans of book chapters and articles. 

This guide is intended to meet you where you are in the process of writing a literature review. Links are to online resources whenever possible. For print books, see the Books page of the main Education research guide

 

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Organizing and Recording Your Process

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Sage Research Methods Online

Short entries, videos, visualizations, how-to-guides, articles and more about research methods in the social and behavioral sciences. Search by keyword, browse by discipline, or use their interactive tools. Also includes a wide range of methods used commonly in sciences, health sciences, and humanities.

Literature Reviews for Education & Nursing Graduate Students

This free online textbook is designed for students in graduate-level education and nursing programs. From developing a research question to locating and evaluating sources to writing a sample literature review using appropriate publication guidelines, readers will be guided through the process.

Online Resources for Systematic Approaches to a Successful Literature Review

Source tracking templates, project diaries, lists of tools, and more to help through your literature review process.