Chapter 3

Reviewing the Literature

The Purpose of Reviewing the Literature

Reviewing a Broad Topic of Interest

Reviewing a Research Question

    Primary and Secondary Sources

Locating Pertinent Information

Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC)

    Eric Clearinghouses

    Reference Tools Produced by ERIC

    Eric Digests

        Thesaurus of ERIC Descriptors

        Current Index to Journals in Education (CIJE)

        Resources in Education (RIE)

        Exceptional Child Educational Resources (ECER)

Education Index

The Psychological Research Literature

    Thesaurus of Psychological Index Terms

    Psychological Abstracts

    Dissertation Abstracts International

Using cited References

Social Sciences Citation Index

Conducting a Manual Literature Search

    Keeping Track of Your Literature Search

Bibliographic Citations

Notetaking

What to Do If you Find No Studies Related to Your Topic

    Conceputally Related Studies

Non-empirical Articles