Doing Your Literature Review: Traditional and Systematic Techniques Paperback – 3 March 2011

This book brings excellent ideas and tips about how to plan and to conduct a literature review. Many examples are also presented to illustrate the main steps of this process.

I had struggled with my literature review, especially in convincing my committee that the approach I had used qualified to be called a "systematic review". This book helped me support my arguments and in fact it has been recommended to all the PhD students in the cohorts behind mine, many of whom are just now getting to the point of starting their literature review. I also would recommend Systematic Approaches to a Successful Literature Review by Booth.

A really fantastic book that I strongly recommend , very easy to read and gives a great introduction to systematic reviews...I'm a PhD student and it answered a lot of questions I had about reviewing the literature. Shows tools and techniques to get the job done effectively! :-)

This is one of the best references I used when I was writing my scientific papers for an ISI indexed journal.

Has some good tips and pointers, certainly a good place to start if your really lost and not sure what to do!