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Once you have completed your scoping search, defined the concepts and themes of your research, and identified some keywords, you will need to carry out in-depth searches to find relevant and quality literature for your systematic review, as well as to finalise your keywords and search strings.
Other useful insights can be found in non-scholarly information or grey literature, but these cannot be searched in a systematic way. This type of information can include a variety of documents not produced by traditional commercial or academic publishers, such as books, theses, conference papers, reports and working papers.
Most high-quality, scholarly research is published in academic journals, and it is these articles which are the main currency of academic research.
There are two distinct types of resources – subject (aggregator) databases or indexes and, publisher databases.
Each of the following subject databases and indexes can be searched systematically. Scopus and Web of Science provide citation searching.
Thousands of scholarly business publications including 2,000+ peer-reviewed journals. Includes books, conference proceedings, country, industry and market reports, and videos. Mobile app available. Full text: variable, 1922 - current.
Ready to search like a Librarian? Learn more with the EBSCOhost Interface - Quick Start Guide.
Accessibility note: EBSCO includes text-to-speech functionality and allows DRM free PDF downloads of some eBooks. Find out more at Accessibility | EBSCO.
Ready to search like a Librarian? Learn more with the ProQuest Platform LibGuide.
Index of international literature in psychology and related disciplines such as psychiatry, education, business, medicine, nursing, pharmacology, law, linguistics, and social work.
Ready to search like a Librarian? Learn more with the EBSCOhost Interface - Quick Start Guide.
A huge index covering publications from 7,000+ publishers in all areas of science, technology, medicine, and social sciences. It has several functions that allow searchers to personalise it to their own interests. You can set up email alerts for this database. Learn more about how to best use Scopus's advanced search. If you see an authentication error message, please clear Elsevier cookies from your browser.
Ready to search like a Librarian? Learn more with Scopus video tutorials
WoS covers a very broad range of subjects relating to science, technology, social sciences and medicine. The ability to carry out citation searching is a key feature along with advanced search functions.
Ready to search like a Librarian? Learn more with the WoS Core Collection Quick Reference Guide (pdf)
Subject databases provide access to the abstract and/or full text of articles listed in the publisher databases. For example, Emerald Insight content is entirely indexed in the ProQuest One Business database. Therefore, you should only need to search the subject databases. However, you can search the publisher databases if you find you are missing relevant articles when searching the subject databases. The choice is yours but always document your choices and the reasons behind them.
Articles from Emerald's international portfolio. Covers a spectrum of management disciplines as well as a substantial number of engineering, applied science and technology titles. Email alerts available. Full text: varies, archive access back to 1994.
Access to full text articles contained within 571 journal titles from Sage going back to 1999.