extensive literature review
I'm a random person on the internet; what sort of sources would be used in such a review?
At the moment I'm working on a PhD, so my methods are biased towards resources available at a major research university. I have a list of different things to try when I want to be as comprehensive as possible. I'll flesh out my list in more detail. You can do many of these if you are not at a university, e.g., if you can't access online journal articles, try the Less Wrong Help Desk.
In terms of sources, the internet and physical libraries will be the main ones. I wrote more on the process of finding relevant prior work.
This process can be done in any parti...
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