How can an individual identify and make sense of the voluminous amount of currently available information on nearly every important topic in education, health, social welfare, psychology, and business? What criteria can be used to distinguish between good and poor studies? In Conducting Research Literature Reviews: From Paper to the Internet, author Arlene G. Fink provides a comprehensive guide for readers to navigate through these challenges. Through practical checklists, case examples, and exercises, the book unravels the intricacies of conducting effective literature reviews.

The book covers essential topics such as selecting questions to maximize the efficiency of the review; identifying subject headings and key words for electronic searches; determining the most appropriate databases; supplementing computer and Web-based searches; identifying and dealing with unpublished studies; setting inclusion and exclusion criteria; justifying methods for reviewing only the ‘highest quality’ literature; preparing a structured literature abstraction form; ensuring the reliability and validity of the review; synthesizing and reporting results; conducting and evaluating descriptive literature reviews; and understanding and evaluating the principles of meta-analysis.

With a print length of 280 pages, this edition from SAGE Publications, Inc., published on April 21, 1998, offers invaluable insights into the art and science of research literature reviews. The book is available in English with ISBN-13: 978-0761909040 and ISBN-10: 0761909044.

Dimensions of the book are 6.5 x 1 x 9.5 inches, making it a portable resource for researchers and students alike.