Systematic searches

• Create you search with the help of search blocks
• The search blocks should contain both subject headings and free text words (when applicable)
• Run your search in several databases with a similar search string
• Will get you a search result where you can go through the whole list of studies
• Is so transparent and well documented which makes it possible to repeat

Choose your databases

Subject specific databases

Interdisciplinary Databases

Databases with content in languages other than English

To find all studies in a field, you may need to search outside the traditional English-language sources.

Grey literature

In the process of searching for information for a systematic review, you often come into contact with the concept of gray literature. Gray literature refers to studies and texts that have not been published in the usual channels. It can be studies and articles that are ongoing or that were never published, but also Internal documents and reports or dissertations and conference contributions.