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Informationen zum Autor Jill Jesson entered higher education as a mature student. Shewon a First Class Honours BSc in Behavioural Science, and in 1988 was awardedher PhD for a pioneering doctoral thesis on black businesses, both from Aston University.Since then she has worked with multi-disciplinary research teams within theAston School of Pharmacy, Aston Business Schooland with M-E-L Research, an independent public services research consultancy.Her publications cover community pharmacy practice, public health and socialcare. Her special interest in literature review and the idea for this bookdeveloped as a result of teaching applied research to pharmacy undergraduatesand Business School Masters students. LydiaMatheson is an Information Specialist working for Library & InformationServices at Aston University. Sheundertook her BA Honours in English at YorkUniversity and her PG Diploma inLibrarianship at the University of Central England. Her current role includes supporting business school students and developingthe library’s online learning module for staff and students. She iscurrently Secretary of the Business Librarians Association and a member ofCILIP. Before 2002, she worked on Stories from the Web forBirmingham Libraries and the SENCO Electronic Communications Project for theNational Council for Educational Technology. Fiona M. Lacey is a Glasgownative and graduate in Pharmacy, from Strathclyde University.She has been a registered pharmacist since 1982, practicing mainly in communitypharmacy. Following a PhD in pharmacology, she gained post doctoral experienceof R&D as a laboratory scientist in a UK-based multinational pharmaceuticalcompany. She has been at Aston University since 1997,where she has taught various scientific and professional aspects of Pharmacy toundergraduate and postgraduate students. Her interest in literature review andthe systematic review came through years of supervising student researchprojects. She is currently Associate Dean in the School of Life and HealthSciences at Aston University. Klappentext Guiding students through the process of writing both traditional and systematic literature reviews, this book tackles an area that is an integral part of doing research, yet is often overlooked by other methods texts. Zusammenfassung Guiding students through the process of writing both traditional and systematic literature reviews! this book tackles an area that is an integral part of doing research! yet is often overlooked by other methods texts. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Who is this book for? How is this book different? The rationale and history behind the contributions from a researcher and from an information specialist Features of the book Layout of the book PART ONE: GETTING INFORMATION Preliminaries What is a literature review? Terminology used in this book Different styles of review Two styles or approaches A critical approach Knowledge and literature Why and when will you need to review the literature? The research question and the literature review What is appropriate literature? Choosing which style of review: a traditional narrative review or a systematic review Project management Searching for Information Introduction Develop online searches by identifying key words and creating a search record The range of information sources available for complex searches. What do you need from a resource to make it appropriate for locating journal articles for your review? Reading Skills Introduction Be analytical in your reading Where to start Reading techniques - scan, skim and understand Reading differ...
