Conducting research literature reviews : from the internet to paper / Arlene Fink (UCLA, Los Angeles, USA).

Chapter 1: Reviewing the Literature: Why? For Whom? How?; What is a Research Literature Review? Why Do One?; Gaining Control: Experiments and Observations; Choosing an Online Bibliographic Database; Systematic, Explicit and Reproducible: Three Key Words; Identifiers and the Thesaurus; Pausing during the Search; Changing the Course of the Search; Supplementing the Online Search; Organizing the Research Literature: Building a Virtual Filing Cabinet; Research Design and Sampling; Chapter 2: Searching and Screening: The Practical Screen and Methodological Quality; Search Screen 1: Practical Screen; Search Screen 2: Methodological Quality Screen; Sampling; A Checklist to Use in Evaluating the Quality of Study Design and Sampling; Data Collection, Interventions, Analysis, Results, and Conclusions; Chapter 3: Searching and Screening: Methodological Quality; Data Collection and Data Sources: Methods and Measures; Interventions and Programs: Reviewing the Research Literature to Find out What Works; Information Analysis: Statistical Methods in the Research Literature; Chapter 4: Doing the Review; Types of Information Collection; Eligibility and Actuality; Reliable and Valid Reviews; Uniform Data Collection: The Literature Review Survey Questionnaire; Uniform Data Collection: Definitions, Etc; Establishing Validity; Monitoring Quality; Chapter 5: What Did You Find? Synthesizing Results; Now that You Have Done It, What Do You Do With It?; Descriptive Syntheses or Reviews; Meta-Analysis; Meta-Analysis in Practice: Examples;

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