PHYS 403: Supervised Research and Galaxy Lab (BMC)

What is a Literature Review?

A literature review is an account of what has been published on a topic by accredited scholars and researchers.

A good literature review:

•  gives a critical examination of existing literature in a certain subject area
•  provides an original synthesis of previous work
•  identifies critical gaps of knowledge and points to disagreement within a subject area
•  leads to new ways of looking at a topic
• transforms a network of articles into a coherent view of the literature
• allows a student or scholar to integrate and synthesize information on a topic and use it to create new knowledge

You can begin by researching the literature that's been published on your topic by using some of the databases and journals listed below.

[Note: the publisher has provided a "quick reference guide" for easy reference.]

[Note: Detailed information about searching the ADS can be found here.]