Find tips for organizing and synthesizing methodological sources for your literature review.

A critical step in planning and designing research entails reviewing literature to situate it in a research tradition.

Want to design and plan a review study? Find open-access examples of systematic reviews, meta-syntheses, meta–analyses, and integrative literature reviews. Also, learn more with related SAGE books.

Dr. Kara discusses the usefulness of secondary data.

What is archival research like in the digital age? When do you need to visit a physical archives and look through paper documents?

What kinds of documents or archived materials fit your study?

See this research discussion with Wyke Stommel and Lynn de Rijk about ethical use of online data.