Biology: Literature Reviews

Find a literature review article. A literature review article will provide summaries and evaluations of books, government documents, scholarly journal articles and other - significant - sources all relevant to a specific topic; however, literature reviews will often cover just scholarly articles. Read a literature review to explore the breadth and depth of a topic and to further discover resources.

Sometimes a database search can be limited to a literature review or a meta-analysis. In EBSCOhost, literature reviews is a subject. Or, try "literature review" as a keyword.  For example:
 

("literature review" AND ("global warming" OR "climate change"))

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Annual Review of Psychology 

Annual Review of Clinical Psychology

Annual Review of Immunology

Annual Review of Microbiology

Annual Review of Anthropology

Annual Review of Neuroscience

Annual Review of Nutrition

Annual Review of Sociology

Annual Review of Public Health

indexing and abstracting for all other Annual Reviews

search at Annual Reviews or Google Scholar to find Open Access 

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