ScholarLens Research Guides
A better way into the literature.
Practical, evidence-aware guides for turning a research interest into a question, a reading strategy, and a defensible next step. These are working resources, not shortcuts around reading the literature.
Where should you begin?
Choose the task in front of you.
Start with the guide that matches your stage. Move between them as your question develops; finding papers, reviewing them, and identifying a gap are connected activities.
How to Find a Research Gap
A practical way to read a body of literature, test what is missing, and turn evidence into a defensible research direction.
Read the guideHow to Conduct a Literature Review
A practical workflow for finding, screening, organizing, comparing, and synthesizing research literature around a clear question.
Read the guideHow to Find Research Papers for a Research Topic
A search strategy for moving from a broad topic to a useful, organized reading list without relying on titles alone.
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Ask a better question
Move from a broad topic to concepts, evidence, and a scope you can actually investigate.
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Read comparatively
Keep methods, populations, findings, and limitations visible across multiple papers.
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Make the next step defensible
Use what the literature supports, including uncertainty and disagreement, to shape your direction.
Research Guides work best beside real papers.
Use the guides to plan your search, then explore ScholarLens for papers you can inspect, compare, read closely, and save to your Library.
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