lit

lit

Literature review tool. Supports Elsevier's Scopus.

Usage

Three tools are provided to help researchers perform the first phases of a sistematic literature review (SLR). Everything starts with lit-max: its the query refinement phase in which the query is exposed to the library and the number of hits is returned. It is suggested to tune the query till ~500 results are returned. The second phase is the download one, where the results are acually downloaded and stored locally. This is performed using the lit-get tool. The third phase is the time-demanding one, in which each publication is reviewed and the researcher is supposed to accept/reject papers based on some exclusion/inclusion criteria. This is done thourgh lit-review.

Features

The lit-* suite uses an event-based database (single file selected through the -edb flag) to store everything. Just ensure you don't loose this file and you'll be fine. For now, you can freely edit the file. In the future, I plan on using a markov-chain strategy to ensure other researchers that your results have not been tampered, but this is going to happen only if the tool exits the "toy/prototype" phase and someone else is using it.

For feature requests and everything else, open an issue.

Recovering

The program's state is constructed from its .edb file, by default lit.edb. If something goes wrong, users are invited to open it up and edit its contents for now, for example by deleting one or more reviews.