Tools, Techniques and Strategies for Efficient and Effective Literature Reviews Online
Are you conducting a formal literature review for publication or a grant proposal? Are you looking for ways to stay on top of a rapidly emerging field? Or are you seeking to identify knowledge gaps to explore novel areas of research? Conducting literature reviews and staying on top of the research can feel like a daunting task. This workshop will provide a set of skills and tools to make this process easier and help you feel confident that you have found a thorough and representative body of literature on your topic. We will cover tips and techniques for searching the literature, managing the research papers you find, accessing full text of research quickly, and setting up search alerts for new papers. The workshop is aimed at graduate students, staff and faculty researchers, but anyone is welcome to join.
This is Part 1 of the Advanced and systematized literature review methods Workshop Series. Join us for one or any of these sessions. Other workshops in this series:
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Conducting scoping reviews to understand the research landscape, Wednesday, October 29, 11AM-12PM ET
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Analyzing scholarly literature using bibliometrics, Tuesday, November 18, 11AM-12PM ET
- Date:
- Wednesday, September 17, 2025
- Time:
- 11:00am - 12:00pm
- Time Zone:
- Eastern Time - US & Canada (change)
- Campus:
- Virtual Workshop
- Audience:
- Faculty Staff Students
- Categories:
- Evidence Synthesis
- Online:
- This is a virtual event. A URL to participate will be sent via a reminder email 24 hours before the event.
Virtual Workshop Information:
- The link to join this event will be found in your confirmation email and in the reminder email sent 24 hours before the event.
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