Top tips 3: How to do a literature search

5 quick tips on how to plan and undertake a literature search

Abstract

5 tips on how to get the most from online literature search tools.This is the third of a series of 6 top tips sheets developed during the COMDIS-HSD Writing Workshop

  • Top Tips 1: How to choose the right journal
  • Top Tips 2: How to write an introduction
  • Top Tips 3: How to do a literature search
  • Top Tips 4: How to use tables in your paper
  • Top Tips 5: How to write a great abstract and title
  • Top Tips 6: How to submit your paper and deal with reviewers

This research is supported by the Department for International Development’s COMDIS–HSD Programme which is led by the University of Leeds

Citation

COMDIS. Top tips 3: How to do a literature search. COMDIS-HSD Tools, Tips and Guides (2017)

Top tips 3: How to do a literature search

Updates to this page

Published 1 January 2017