This book is intended for anyone who wants to research social, health, educational, and business issues. It is ideal for students, researchers, marketers, planners, and policymakers who design and manage public and private agencies, conduct research studies, and prepare strategic plans and grant proposals. This new edition includes: flow diagrams to assist the reader in linking each step of the review to the contents of each chapter; new references and other online resources to help users learn more about literature reviews; links to online literature reviews and meta-analyses; guidance in choosing online public and private bibliographic databases for literature reviews; and, guidance about searching the web for research information. The text also discusses the use of Boolean operators for simple and advanced searches, tells readers how to use bibliographic software to organize literature reviews and search 'The Virtual File Cabinet', and describes how to synthesize the literature as a stand-alone report or as a component of a paper or proposal to justify the need for and significance of research, and/or to explain a study's findings.

阿琳·芬克，博士，加利福尼亚大学洛杉矶分校医学和公共卫生教授，兰利研究所所长。她的主要兴趣包括评估和调查研究，以及开展研究文献综述并对其质量进行评估。芬克博士已经在医学、公共卫生和教育领域开展过很多项研究。她是加州大学洛杉矶分校的罗伯特·伍德·约翰逊临床学者项目（Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program）及其健康服务中心的教师，还是南加州大学的少数民族研究中心顾问委员会的成员。她还是美国生物伦理学会、国际临床伦理学会和法国巴黎高等航空航天学校（IPPSA）等机构的顾问。芬克教授频繁在美国及国际上演讲，并且是100多篇同行评议文章和15种教科书的作者。

译者简介

齐心，男，1969年出生，河北省石家庄市人。2005年毕业于北京大学社会学系，获博士学位。曾于2008年受韩国高等教育财团资助赴韩国国立首尔大学做访问学者一年。现为北京市社科院城市问题研究所副所长、研究员。研究方向为城市发展战略、城市网络、城市居住与住房问题。