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The document discusses sources and methods for conducting a literature review. It identifies common sources such as textbooks, scientific journals, conference proceedings, theses, reports, and magazines. It recommends searching sources by title, abstract, references and summaries to find relevant works. The literature should then be obtained from libraries, online databases or directly from authors and read thoroughly to identify key findings and insights. A accurate record of sources must be created with bibliographic information to cite sources properly.

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The document discusses sources and methods for conducting a literature review. It identifies common sources such as textbooks, scientific journals, conference proceedings, theses, reports, and magazines. It recommends searching sources by title, abstract, references and summaries to find relevant works. The literature should then be obtained from libraries, online databases or directly from authors and read thoroughly to identify key findings and insights. A accurate record of sources must be created with bibliographic information to cite sources properly.

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LOKMANYA TILAK INSTITUTE OF ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGN STUDIES

LITERATURE REVIEW _ NOTES 2

Literature review

Content
3-1 Why do literature review?
3-2 Sources of literatures?
3-2-1 Textbooks
3-2-2 Scientific journals
3-2-3 Conference proceedings
3-2-4 Theses and dissertations
3-2-5 Reports
3-2-6 People
3-2-7 Magazines and newspapers
3-3 How to do literature review?
3-3-1 Finding out useful literatures
3-3-2 Obtaining the literatures
3-3-3 Reading the literatures
3-3-4 Making a record

3.1 Why do literature review


- Clarify the past work done by others on the target area;
- Avoid the wrong ways to go in your research, from learning the experience which have
been developed;
- Find a right way to pursue for your coming research;
- Avoid repetition possibly occurring in your research.

3.2 Sources of literatures


- Textbooks;
- Scientific journals;
- Conference proceedings
- Theses and dissertations
- Company reports
- People
- Magazines and newspapers

3.2.1 – Textbooks

 Basic knowledge and information;


 More wide and deep (comprehensive) in scope of knowledge than any other resources;
 Out-of-date information possibly included, latest edition of a book should be used to
minimise this problem.

3.2.2 – Scientific journal articles

- bread-and-butter of scientific reporting;


- peer-reviewed;
- impact factor – level of reputation;
- publish papers in higher standard journals
 significant and reliable, and fully peer-reviewed;
 latest information included
 long waiting process – be patient and subject to necessary update
SEM_IX_LTIADS_compiled by_Bhakti Salunke
Auhor: Dr.Apeksha Gupta
LOKMANYA TILAK INSTITUTE OF ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGN STUDIES
LITERATURE REVIEW _ NOTES 2

3-2-3 Conference proceedings

Conference
– gatherings of researchers in a particular field where scientific results are presented as
papers;
– interpersonal interactions and quick dissemination of the latest results

Proceedings
- collection of the papers presented at a conference;
- source of the most current information;
- less reliable than journals, as the papers published are not peer-reviewed.

3-2-4 Thesis and dissertations

- finished product, or ‘write-up’ of Masters and Doctoral candidates;


- dissertation refers to a Masters report;
- thesis refers to a Doctoral one;
- stored in institutions’ libraries and are available via Interlibrary Loans

3-2-5 Reports

- many companies commission scientific research into practical problems;


- results of such research described in a company report
- valuable source for company or personnel if the company intends to make it available
- commercial or security concerns as the priority.

3-2-6 People

- people working on the same area and having direct link with the project you are going to
do;
- less reliable
- more direct

3-2-7 Magazines and newspapers

- a lot of information available;


- less scientific;
- more public awareness;
- treated with caution.

3-3 How to do literature review

4-steps to do literature review

- finding out which reports (books, articles etc) are useful;


- obtaining copies of them;
- reading them
- make a record

3-3-1 Finding out useful literatures

SEM_IX_LTIADS_compiled by_Bhakti Salunke


Auhor: Dr.Apeksha Gupta
LOKMANYA TILAK INSTITUTE OF ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGN STUDIES
LITERATURE REVIEW _ NOTES 2

- Check the title of the literatures


- Check the abstract which has summarised the key points, reading through the abstract is a
quick way to determine the relevance of the work to your own topic
- Check the references used by other people – if you find a particularly useful report, the
sources that the writer of the report used are also likely to be useful to you. A list of such
sources (‘references’) normally appears at the end of a scientific report
- Check the summary of publications – in many fields there is a journal or organisation
which keeps track of new works published on a particular subject, and which provides
regularly updated summary lists.

3-3-2 Places to obtain the actual reports includes

From library
From internet
From people

3-3-2-1 LIBRARY SERVICES

1. Manual actions

- Go to subject library
- Find books, journals, magazine, CD-ROM database, by using dialog search
- Borrow it

2. Website services

- Go onto the library website


- Find the literature by input key words
- Look through the search results
- Order it through the website
- Alternatively, go to e-library to get electronic versions

3-3-2-2 INTERNET
- global network of the computer systems;
- many millions of files of data are freely (or charged) available;
- too much information and how to filter out the useful;

most commonly used website for literature review: -

www.sciencedirect.com

search for a paper


- input key word – solar heat pump
- find a list of papers
- print the papers required

3-3-2-3 FROM PEOPLE

SEM_IX_LTIADS_compiled by_Bhakti Salunke


Auhor: Dr.Apeksha Gupta
LOKMANYA TILAK INSTITUTE OF ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGN STUDIES
LITERATURE REVIEW _ NOTES 2

- check progress in this field;


- obtain information or reports which are not available from other resources;
- normal mail, email, telephone conversation or face-to-face talk.

Email address might be obtained from an article or book, or by using a browser package on the
internet to access the electronic ‘phonebook’ at the author’s institution.

3-3-3 READING THE LITERATURES

Reading through the literatures collected and finding the following key facts:

- How well the referred work is relevant to yours


- What data/findings/conclusions are useful to your research
- What are their major achievements, and how can you do further in light of the existing
success
- What kind of methodology they used in their research, and what can you learn from them
- Developing your own ideas for your research by learning from their work

– Make a record

- Keep accurate records of any information you receive by making a summary of each
report;
- Your records should include the information you need to reference each source, i.e., title,
authors, year of publication, and,
 For books: the publisher and place of publication;
 For journals: the journal name, volume and number;
 For proceedings: the conference name and place

You must have some system to organize your records – if your information isn’t organized, your
thoughts won’t be either.

MAKING A RECORD – Reference for literatures

Reference literatures are normally listed

- in the alphabetic order by the initial letter of the surname of the first author, or

- in a sequential order the literature was appeared in your report (paper)

For books, you should provide –


author name (year) title, name of publisher, location of the publisher (city, country), page no.
Example:
Faghri, A. (1995) Heat Pipe Science and Technology, Taylor & Francis, Washington, DC, pp. 11-
110.

SEM_IX_LTIADS_compiled by_Bhakti Salunke


Auhor: Dr.Apeksha Gupta

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