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MSHAL Literature Review: Step 2: Finding Information

Finding Articles in CINAHL

Other Databases

Look through these databases for more articles to use for your literature review!

Google Scholar

You can also use Google Scholar to find articles for your literature reveiews! 

Google Scholar offers search tips on how to use the search engine and you can link Zahnow Library's resources to Google Scholar!

Finding Existing Literature Reviews

As literature reviews may already exist on some aspect of your topic, it is often useful to search databases for them. However, while many databases do not permit one to limit to the specific document type of literature reviews, some do. At any rate, it is usually a good idea when searching a database to enter the particular search term(s) in the first search box and then "literature review" (or the truncated "literature review*" that will retrieve "literature review" and "literature reviews") in the second search box.

The database CINAHL allows you to limit your search to the Publication Type "Systematic Review".

Many of the Systematic Reviews will be literature reviews.

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