Annual Reviews and Web of Knowledge are two great databases to start with when you need to complete a literature review or an annotated bibliography, but you should not stop there!
Search other Library databases that contain primary, scholarly information related to your topic to ensure that you are including the most valuable research in your review.
The Web of Knowledge database allows you to track article citations, popularity of topics, major authors in a subject area, and much more. By tracking the amount of times an article has been cited by other scholars you are able to see which article has had the most impact on a particular field of research. These high impact articles are what you want to include in a literature review or an annotated bibliography. Looking at high impact articles will also allow you to discern the authors that consistently publish high impact articles (thus, major authors in the research field) and journals that consistently publish high impact articles (thus, major journals in the research field).
To access Web of Knowledge go to the A-Z Databases page of the Library.
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