Literature Surveys
Background
Here is a link to the "Directory of Free Open Access Journals" where you can publish without paying author's fees.
What is a literature survey, and why do we do it? Here is a talk by Dr Candace Hastings of Texas A&M University on writing a literature survey.
What is the format of a structured literature review? Here is the PRISMA STATEMENT of Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses.
Here are Dr Randy Stapleton's 3 Unbelievable AI Technologies to Automate Your Literature Review.
Discovery
Your library subscribes to numerous databases that provide you with high quality research output. Nevertheless you may find the following Artificial Intelligence Tools very handy to assist. Here is Dr Andy Stapleton's "fastest way to do your literature review", in which he demonstrates the following applications.
Paper Digest will give you a quick overview of the field and then allow you to drill down into specifics. It will also help you paraphrase to prevent plagiarism.
Here are three AI sites that show you how various papers are related.
Read and Structure
Scispace and Elicit.org are the best two sites for making your literature tables.
Semantic Scholar will read the text for you and provide related readings.
Lateral allows you to find all the related literature. Here is a demo.
Build your spreadsheet. Here is an example of Noha Omer's spreadsheet.
Elicit.org is the best way of making your literature tables.
Docear will help you to write it all up.