How to Conduct a Literature Search Your Supervisor Trusts
5 min read · For Canadian students
Literature search workflows.
Start with two or three review articles.
Use multiple databases: Scholars Portal, Web of Science, Scopus, Google Scholar.
Document your search strategy.
Snowball: forward and backward citations.
Set up alerts.
Use a reference manager from the start.
A focused search of 80 papers beats a sprawl of 800.
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