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 "Survival Kit" 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 - 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