Systematic Approaches to a Successful Literature Review

Chapter 1: Meeting the Review Family: An Overview/What is a Literature Review?/When do I do a literature review?/Meet the review family/Why not a literature review?/What is not a literature review?/How do I prepare to do a literature review?/Chapter 2: Getting Started on your Literature Review/Why is the literature review so important? /Where do I start?/Why review the literature? /A brief history of research synthesis/What is the place of theory in literature review?/Introducing the SALSA framework /Systematic approaches/How do I plan and conduct my literature review? /Managing your literature review/Updates to existing reviews/Converting your review to a different format /Chapter 3: Choosing your review methods/Our âSurvival Kitâ of review options/Review Choice Scenarios /Chapter 4: Defining your scope/Introduction: Why is defining your scope important?/Further defining your scope/Toolbox - Defining your Scope/Defining your scope: challenges and pitfalls/The review protocol/Chapter 5: Searching the literature /Who should conduct the literature search?/Aims and purpose of literature searching/How to prepare for your review (the scoping search)/How to construct your search strategy/How to search bibliographic databases/How to use supplementary searching/How to manage your references/How to report the search process/Chapter 6: Assessing the evidence base/Assessing your included studies â" first steps/Assessing the evidence-base in detail/Chapter 7: Synthesising and analysing quantitative studies/Synthesis-analysis, analysis-synthesis? /Revisiting the review question(s)/Chapter 8: Synthesising and analysing qualitative studies/Overview of approaches to qualitative synthesis /A step-by-step guide to qualitative synthesis /Getting started in qualitative synthesis/Progressing to advanced forms of synthesis /Chapter 9: Synthesising and analysing mixed methods data/Undertaking a Mixed Methods Review /A step-by-step guide to mixed methods synthesis /Points of integration for quantitative and qualitative evidence /On the role of the Narrative Review/Chapter 10: Writing up, presenting and disseminating your review/Considering your audience/A sample review structure/Publicising your review /Toolbox for presenting your findings