LibGuides: Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP): Conducting a Literature Review

Selected Literature Review Books

Conducting Your Literature Review by Susanne Hempel
ISBN: 9781433830921
Publication Date: 2019-09-10
Doing a Literature Review in Nursing, Health and Social Care by Michael Coughlan; Patricia Cronin
Call Number: RT 81.5 .C68 2021
ISBN: 9781526497512
Publication Date: 2021-03-09
Literature Review and Synthesis by Susan Weber Buchholz; Kirsten A. Dickins
Call Number: RT 41 B83x 2023
ISBN: 9780826152138
Publication Date: 2022-03-01
Succeeding in Literature Reviews and Research Project Plans for Nursing Students by G. R. Williamson; Andrew Whittaker
Call Number: RT 81.5.W493 2017
ISBN: 9781473967298
Publication Date: 2017-05-02

Tips for Literature Reviews

Search the nursing/healthcare literature to find studies relevant to your topic or PICOT question.
Don’t just summarize and list studies on your subject, instead:
- Appraise your findings
- Summarize research studies
- Compare and contrast studies
- Synthesize the key concepts of your readings

Selected Online Resources

DOI Help: Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs)
How to find an article's Digital Object Identifier, or DOI.
Evaluating Research Literature
A guide from Kennesaw State University on how to assess and evaluate research studies.
Literature Review: A Self-Guided Tutorial
A step-by-step guide to conducting a literature review.
Literature Reviews
This guide provides detailed information about conducting a literature review
Literature Reviews
This guide from NYU gives details about various types of literature reviews and a roadmap for evidence synthesis.
Literature Reviews & Research Methods
This JSU subject guide offers advice on doing literature reviews and types of research methods
RefWorks: Analysis & Synthesis
How to use RefWorks to help with the synthesis of articles for a literature review. Part of a comprehensive subject guide from Kennesaw State University.
What is a Literature Review?
This page offers information on literature reviews

Welcome

Welcome to the Houston Cole Library Guide pages! The Conducting a Literature Review Guide gives you links to key resources to help you get started finding and organizing your resources. Information is also available at Houston Cole Library's How to Conduct a Literature Review page.

Finding Information and Keeping Track of References

Selected databases to search for literature are listed below. RefWorks is a reference manager designed to keep track of the references cited in your papers, and to create bibliographies.

CINAHL Complete
Most comprehensive source of full-text for nursing & allied health journals, providing full text for more than 1,300 journals indexed in CINAHL. This authoritative file contains full text for many of the most used journals in the CINAHL index, with no embargo. CINAHL®Complete is the definitive research tool for all areas of nursing & allied health literature.
An EBSCOhost database
Cochrane Library
Evidence-based research to inform healthcare decision making. It is a collection of databases including the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews and Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials.
A John Wiley database.
JBI EBP Database
The complete evidence-based practice content set from the Joanna Briggs Institute (JBI).
Download JBI Factsheet
PsycINFO 1887-Current
Indexes the psychological literature from 1887 to the present time.
An EBSCOhost database
PubMed (Medline)
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Free government database for all things medical.
RefWorks
Bibliographic management program that allows users to create personal databases and use them for a variety of research activities.
References can be quickly and easily imported into RefWorks from text files or online databases. Users can automatically insert references from their database into their papers, generating formatted bibliographies and manuscripts. With an improved user experience, full-text management and collaboration features, RefWorks gives students and faculty a tool that enables a more efficient and reliable process for producing research papers.

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Don't Fear the Literature Review

Literature Review Tutorial
This short tutorial breaks down the aspects of a literature review and how to perform one with emphasis on tips to take the anxiety out of the process.

Literature Reviews: An Overview for Graduate Students

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