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Global Public Health: Annotated Bibliographies and Lit Reviews

Note the Subpages/Tabs!

Please note that subtabs/pages beneath this one talk more about:

  • Book Reviews (a key resource for writing literature reviews)
  • Historiography and Historiographical Reviews: a specific type of literature review related to Historical Research, Analysis, and Writring

Annotated Bibliographies and Lit Reviews

Annotated Bibliographies

An annotated bibliography is, as its name suggests, a bibliography that is annotated (or has annotations -- notes or summaries about each item on the bibliography -- what it is about, why it is important, and how it relates to your research project).

Here are a few places to look for examples of annotated bibliographies:

Literature Reviews

A literature review is, (also) as its name suggests, a review (or overview) of the literature on a given topic.  Literature reviews can be stand-alone papers or articles, or sections of longer works (theses and dissertations or articles).  Two key resources providing guidance on writing and examples of literature reviews include:

  • Oxford Bibliographies is a collection of annotated bibliographies which organize discussions of different themes by section, introducing each with an overall paragraph, offering examples of how to organize literature reviews.
  • Annual reviews is a collection of literature reviews on different topics.  Its contents are drawn more from Social Science discipliens than History, but theyprovide useful examples and templates for writing any kind of narrative literature review.