Preparing for a Comprehensive Literature Review

This guide is intended to get you started in preparing for a comprehensive literature review and covers the following topics:

• Defining your research question
• Selecting an appropriate type of review
• Developing a review protocol/proposal
• Format of reviews
• The role of subject librarians in the review process

This guide focuses on the preparation for a review.  For guidance regarding systematic review searching visit the Systematic Reviews, Scoping Reviews, and Health Technology Assessments - Searching the Literature guide.