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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.

Ready resources

The databases you use will vary depending on your area of study.  Luckily for you, the UCO librarians have already developed library Subject Guides to recommend various good resources in every subject area for your research!

Step 3: Search for specific resources

Use different databases and other sources to find different kinds of results. 

Searching Strategies

Getting too many results?  Try using phrase searching to limit your results.  Watch this tutorial to see:

 

 

Getting too few results?  Try using the Boolean command "OR" or truncation to broaden your results.  Watch this tutorial to see: