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Literature Reviews

Library Research Guide This guide is intended to help you develop your literature review and improve your search strategies for undergraduate research projects and grant applications.

Searching steps

By using this portion of the LibGuide, you should be able to find good sources on your topic, even if it is loosely-defined at first.

Use the links to the left, under "Searching Steps" (or below) and check out these easy steps:

  1. Develop a "snapshot" or general overview of the topic (you probably already did some of this when you were developing your research question)
  2. Identify a few relevant search tools, like databases, journals, e-book collections, and search engines
  3. Begin searching for specific resources and refine your search as needed