Chapter – 3_Review of Literature

Chapter – 3

30 Review of Related Literature

The review of literature is an essential aspect of the planning of a research study. The
objective of the review of related literature is to justify the rationale of an ensuing study. It provides
an overview of historical perspective, development, deviators and new departures or research in
that area and also suggests methods of research appropriate to the problem under investigation.
The review of related disciplines relevant to the present study, carried out in different disciplines
by different researchers, has been examined here.

Bush and Harter (1980)1 have expressed the need of literature reviewed in research as “a
literature search is an attempt to identify, locate and synthesize completed research reports,
articles, books and other materials about the specific problems of a research topic. The research
literature and subsequent review can be of value to researcher by helping them to regard their
studies as contributions to a large topic of which the inquiry at hand is only a past.”

We may categories the exhaustive literature review in four different parameters, based on
nature/properties of work by the author i.e. discussed about concept, different types, quality and
development of citations and references.

31 Studies on citations and reference concepts

32 Studies on different kinds citations and references

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33 Studies on quality of citations and references

34 Studies on development of citations and references

35 Outcomes of the review

1
Bush, Charles & Harter, Stephen. (1980). Research methods in librarianship: techniques and
interpretation. New York: Academic Press, pp.351-364.