Searching

Related
Literatures
And Studies
Reviewed?
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Your paper should
refer to a variety of
current, high quality,
professional and
academic sources
support your own
ideas. That means that
source material will be
introduced, analyzed,
explained, and then
cited. Reading sources that will provide an
understanding of the basic body of
knowledge surrounding the
problem.
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• Search the major
multidisciplinary database:
Where to • SCOPUS (subscription)
find good • Web of Science
(subscription)
literature?
• Google Scholar (free)
 www.encyclopedia.com – a free online encyclopaedia with a general
coverage
http://www.Britannica.com – general coverage encyclopaedia
www.scholar.google.co.za – a search engine linked to the library’s e-
resources
Some of the www.isiwebofknowledge.com – a useful citations website with linked
reliable full-text articles
www.emeraldinsight.com – a database dedicated to management
reference sites research
available online; www.sciencedirect.com – a comprehensive multidisciplinary
database with strong emphasis on sciences
some are free www.ebscohost.com – a multidisciplinary database
and some charge www.jstor.org – Social sciences coverage
http://stardata.nrf.ac.za/star/ccrplogin.html - Current and completed
a fee for research including thesis and dissertations
information http://ajol.info – African journals
www.saps.gov.za – crime statistics
www.hsrc.co.za – Human Sciences Research Council
www.csir.co.za – Council for Scientific and Industrial Research
www.un.org – United Nations website
www.unicef.org – United Nations Children’s Fund website
www.merriam-websterdictionary.org – online dictionary
www.up.ais.ac.za, resources located here are available through Inter
Library Loans 3.
 • Surveys scholarly sources
relevant to a particular issue,
What is a area of research, or theory
Literature • Provides a description,
summary, and critical
Review? evaluation of each work
• Offers an overview of
significant literature published
on a topic
• Gives future research context
by telling the story of work
done so far
*http://library.ucsc.edu/ref/howto/ literaturereview.html
Using Google Scholar
• is a tool for finding journal articles,
theses/dissertations and other scholarly
publications across all disciplines. Ranking partly
by most cited.
Housekeeping Tips
 Use a citation management system
◦ Such as RefWorks, Zotero, Mendeley, etc.
◦ One word for these: invaluable. You are absolutely
doing more work in NOT learning about these.
 Always get the complete citation information
◦ Article title, journal title, author, year/volume,
pages, abstract
 Keep track of searches, notes, ideas, etc.
 Fully citing sources = avoiding plagiarism
Mendeley
•Organize your documents + references
•Collaborate by joining + creating groups
•Discover statistics + recommendations
•Stay up to date + learn more
•Store your data
•Manage your career

Go to https://www.mendeley.com/
Managing your library
Use column
headings
All items in to order your
your personal references
library
Items added Mark entries
in the last two read or unread
weeks
Entries with
Access your
attached PDFs
recently read
can be opened
items
with the PDF
All items you’ve Reader
starred in your
library

Items in need Star items to

of review mark them as
favorites
Create and Use Folders
References not added to a
folder will appear in
‘unsorted’

Your folders will be listed

below. Drag and drop to re-
order them.

Use ‘Create Folder’ to enter

a new folder name.
When you take stuff from one
writer, it’s plagiarism; but
when you take it from many
writers, it’s research.
- Wilson Mizner
Any questions?
 Guide lessons videos:
1. How to Write a Literature Review -- Dr. Guy E White
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5W_x6opCvpQ

2. Literature Reviews: Common Errors Made When Conducting a Literature

Review
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5W_x6opCvpQ
3. How to Write a Literature Review in 30 Minutes or Less
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdJxY4w9XKY

4. Writing the Literature Review (Part Two): Step-by-Step Tutorial for

Graduate Students
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UoYpyY9n9YQ

5. How to Cite Sources and not just Copy Content: Tips and Online Tools
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?ref=search&v=3286149511424934&external_log_id=811ddf5c-
3dfd-4f0d-85ec-d676f94d1448&q=pnu%20talks

6. Mendeley Video Tutorial (Manage and Organize References Easily)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQBi5_8skwY&t=1s
 Activity
1. Create a mendeley account.
2. Download desktop mendeley and install it.
3. Install the MS Word plugin.
4. Search all your literature using mendeley desktop.
5. Save them and organize into folders (i.e variables,
topic).
6. Replace all your in-text citations in your document
using cite-o-matic of mendeley
7. Insert bibliography/references at the end of
manuscript