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Systematic Literature Reviews: Social Sciences

Databases

The databases you choose to search will vary according to your search topic. You should consult a number of different databases and conduct manual searching of grey literature in addition to databases searches.

You should search across a combination of subject-specific and cross-disciplinary databases.

For example, an education systematic review topic may search Education Research Complete, APA PsycInfo and Web of Science.

A Business systematic review topic may search Business Source Ultimate, EconLit and Scopus.

Consult the A-Z databases list to find databases for your subject.

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