A little over five years ago, my newest book, Literature Review and Research Design: A Guide to Effective Research Practice, was published. It didn’t get a lot of notice, and my efforts at promotion were hampered by the fact that the COVID lockdown hit just after I had sent out promotional materials while the book was still new.
Recently—over the past 18 months or so—it has started to sell more copies. We’re not talking huge numbers, by any means, but its ranking on Amazon, which spent most of its first three years languishing at 2,000,000 or 3,000,000, is now spending most of its time now at around 1,000,000 or 1,500,000.
Curious about this, I went looking on the web for reviews. I didn’t find many actual reviews (a few on Goodreads), but I did find that several universities were featuring it on webpages dedicated to giving guidance on doing literature reviews. These libraries have chosen several books to feature from among the dozens on the subject of literature reviews, and it is quite gratifying to see mine among the few chosen.
Here’s the list of library webpages that I found:
- Adam Mickiewicz University Programs for International Exchange (Poland)
- Australian National University
- Brock University
- Cal Poly SLO
- Columbia University, Teacher’s College
- Cornell University
- CSU Chico (big list of books, I’m about halfway down)
- Edinburgh Napier University
- Florida Atlantic University
- Kettering University
- Michigan State University
- MIT
- Northwestern University
- NYU
- Queensland University of Technology
- Rasmussen University
- Teaching Council (The Teaching Council is the regulator of the teaching profession in Ireland.)
- The Sorbonne—Dubai
- University of California, Berkeley
- University of Kentucky
- University of North Carolina Wilmington
- University of North Texas
- University of Pretoria
- University of South Africa
- University of South Florida
- University of Texas
- University of Texas Health, San Antonio
- University of Victoria (Canada)
- University of Washington
- University of Washington
- Vancouver Island University