Literature review cheat sheet

GNU Linux Most literature reviews are accomplished by graduate students working in research labs in universities. For absurd reasons, graduate students often have the worst computers on campus. They are often old, slow, and clunky Windows machines that have been discarded and recycled from the undergraduate computer labs.

Often one of the hardest parts of a literature review is gaining access to the papers you want to read for your review. The unintended consequence of copyright restrictions and paywalls is it has narrowed access to the peer-reviewed literature to the point that even Harvard University is challenged to pay for it.

MediaWiki. If you want to leverage the open source way to get help with your literature review, you can facilitate a dynamic collaborative literature review. A wiki is a website that allows anyone to add, delete, or revise content directly using a web browser. MediaWiki is free software that enables you to set up your own wikis.

These software tools make it easier for academics to aggregate evidence for research articles, dissertations, or coursework. Get the highlights in your inbox every week. A good literature review is critical for academic research in any field, whether it is for a research article, a critical review for coursework, or a dissertation.