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LITERATURE REVIEW _ NOTES 2

Literature review

Content
3-1 Why do literature review?
3-2 Sources of literatures?
3-2-1 Textbooks
3-2-2 Scientific journals
3-2-3 Conference proceedings
3-2-4 Theses and dissertations
3-2-5 Reports
3-2-6 People
3-2-7 Magazines and newspapers
3-3 How to do literature review?
3-3-1 Finding out useful literatures
3-3-2 Obtaining the literatures
3-3-3 Reading the literatures
3-3-4 Making a record

3.1 Why do literature review

- Clarify the past work done by others on the target area;
- Avoid the wrong ways to go in your research, from learning the experience which have
been developed;
- Find a right way to pursue for your coming research;
- Avoid repetition possibly occurring in your research.

3.2 Sources of literatures

- Textbooks;
- Scientific journals;
- Conference proceedings
- Theses and dissertations
- Company reports
- People
- Magazines and newspapers

3.2.1 – Textbooks

 Basic knowledge and information;

 More wide and deep (comprehensive) in scope of knowledge than any other resources;
 Out-of-date information possibly included, latest edition of a book should be used to
minimise this problem.

3.2.2 – Scientific journal articles

- bread-and-butter of scientific reporting;

- peer-reviewed;
- impact factor – level of reputation;
- publish papers in higher standard journals
 significant and reliable, and fully peer-reviewed;
 latest information included
 long waiting process – be patient and subject to necessary update
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3-2-3 Conference proceedings

Conference
– gatherings of researchers in a particular field where scientific results are presented as
papers;
– interpersonal interactions and quick dissemination of the latest results

Proceedings
- collection of the papers presented at a conference;
- source of the most current information;
- less reliable than journals, as the papers published are not peer-reviewed.

3-2-4 Thesis and dissertations

- finished product, or ‘write-up’ of Masters and Doctoral candidates;

- dissertation refers to a Masters report;
- thesis refers to a Doctoral one;
- stored in institutions’ libraries and are available via Interlibrary Loans

3-2-5 Reports

- many companies commission scientific research into practical problems;

- results of such research described in a company report
- valuable source for company or personnel if the company intends to make it available
- commercial or security concerns as the priority.

3-2-6 People

- people working on the same area and having direct link with the project you are going to
do;
- less reliable
- more direct

3-2-7 Magazines and newspapers

- a lot of information available;

- less scientific;
- more public awareness;
- treated with caution.

3-3 How to do literature review

4-steps to do literature review

- finding out which reports (books, articles etc) are useful;

- obtaining copies of them;
- reading them
- make a record

3-3-1 Finding out useful literatures

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- Check the title of the literatures

- Check the abstract which has summarised the key points, reading through the abstract is a
quick way to determine the relevance of the work to your own topic
- Check the references used by other people – if you find a particularly useful report, the
sources that the writer of the report used are also likely to be useful to you. A list of such
sources (‘references’) normally appears at the end of a scientific report
- Check the summary of publications – in many fields there is a journal or organisation
which keeps track of new works published on a particular subject, and which provides
regularly updated summary lists.

3-3-2 Places to obtain the actual reports includes

From library
From internet
From people

3-3-2-1 LIBRARY SERVICES

1. Manual actions

- Go to subject library
- Find books, journals, magazine, CD-ROM database, by using dialog search
- Borrow it

2. Website services

- Go onto the library website

- Find the literature by input key words
- Look through the search results
- Order it through the website
- Alternatively, go to e-library to get electronic versions

3-3-2-2 INTERNET
- global network of the computer systems;
- many millions of files of data are freely (or charged) available;
- too much information and how to filter out the useful;

most commonly used website for literature review: -

www.sciencedirect.com

search for a paper

- input key word – solar heat pump
- find a list of papers
- print the papers required

3-3-2-3 FROM PEOPLE

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- check progress in this field;

- obtain information or reports which are not available from other resources;
- normal mail, email, telephone conversation or face-to-face talk.

Email address might be obtained from an article or book, or by using a browser package on the
internet to access the electronic ‘phonebook’ at the author’s institution.

3-3-3 READING THE LITERATURES

Reading through the literatures collected and finding the following key facts:

- How well the referred work is relevant to yours

- What data/findings/conclusions are useful to your research
- What are their major achievements, and how can you do further in light of the existing
success
- What kind of methodology they used in their research, and what can you learn from them
- Developing your own ideas for your research by learning from their work

– Make a record

- Keep accurate records of any information you receive by making a summary of each
report;
- Your records should include the information you need to reference each source, i.e., title,
authors, year of publication, and,
 For books: the publisher and place of publication;
 For journals: the journal name, volume and number;
 For proceedings: the conference name and place

You must have some system to organize your records – if your information isn’t organized, your
thoughts won’t be either.

MAKING A RECORD – Reference for literatures

Reference literatures are normally listed

- in the alphabetic order by the initial letter of the surname of the first author, or

- in a sequential order the literature was appeared in your report (paper)

For books, you should provide –

author name (year) title, name of publisher, location of the publisher (city, country), page no.
Example:
Faghri, A. (1995) Heat Pipe Science and Technology, Taylor & Francis, Washington, DC, pp. 11-
110.

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