How to conduct a literature review

Literature review is critical for any research, however some novic researchers usually have difficulty on conducting effective literature review. Here is some good papers talking about how to conduct literature review. Hope they are helpful.

Baumeister, RF & Leary, MR 1997, ‘Writing narrative literature reviews’,Review of General Psychology, vol. 1, no. 3, pp. 311–320.

Webster, J & Watson, RT 2002, ‘Analyzing the past to prepare for the future: Writing a literature review’, MIS Quarterly, vol. 26, no. 2, pp. xiii–xxiii.

Torraco, RJ 2005, ‘Writing Integrative Literature Reviews: Guidelines and Examples’, Human Resource Development Review, vol. 4, no. 3, pp. 356–367.

Holbrook, A, Bourke, S, Fairbairn, H & Lovat, T 2007, ‘Examiner comment on the literature review in Ph. D. theses’, Studies in Higher Education, vol. 32, no. 3, pp. 337–356.

Bandara, W, Miskon, S & Fielt, E 2011, ‘A systematic, tool-supported method for conducting literature reviews in information systems’, in Proceedings of the 19th European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS 2011).

Boell, SK & Cecez-Kecmanovic, D 2010, ‘Literature Reviews and the Hermeneutic Circle’, Australian Academic & Research Libraries, vol. 41, no. 2, p. 129.