ACAP Pathfinder: Literature Review

Keeping track of the search strategies you have used as well as the literature you have found is an essential component of writing a literature review. Go to the Save & Organise Research guide to learn about using My Library and the library's online databases to manage your searches and organise your literature. Features include:

• Saving individual items to your eShelf or personalised folders
• Saving entire searches or pages of results
• Exporting bibliographic data to referencing management tools such as Zotero
• Add items to bookmarking services.

Rather than saving the results of your literature searches in various databases across multiple platforms, it can be beneficial to save your research all in one place. Dedicated reference management applications such as Zotero are designed specifically for this purpose. They will also help you correctly cite sources when you are writing the review. You may wish to read our Reference Management Software guide.

We recommend using Zotero, which is a free program and may be downloaded here: https://www.zotero.org