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 Mendeley (RIS)
• 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 and Mendeley are designed specifically for this purpose. They will also help you correctly cite sources when you are writing the review.  If you require assistance using any of these reference management tools, please contact your campus library. 

• Mendeley is a freeware application. Sign up here: https://www.mendeley.com
• Zotero is a freeware application and may be downloaded here: https://www.zotero.org/