Support for literature searches

Are you writing a systematic literature review, scoping review or other type of literature review and need help with the literature search? Perhaps you want to make sure you haven't missed relevant literature in your research area? If so, you can get search assistance from librarians working at the Social Sciences Faculty Library. 

We can help by: 

• Providing guidance on relevant search terms for a research question, database selection and search techniques in selected databases. 
• Carrying out or guiding a structured search for a literature review, research mapping or similar. 
• Delivering search results and documentation in relevant formats and in accordance with the appropriate standard (e.g. PRISMA). 

Please use the contact form to book a meeting with one of the librarians of the Faculty of Social Sciences, and we will help you with your questions.  

• Book an appointment here! 

The library’s information resources  

As a researcher at Lund University, you have access to a large number of databases and services. You can search for literature in our LUBsearch system or the LUBcat library catalogue. You can also go directly to a subject database via the Databases A-Z list.  

LUBsearch 
LUBcat 
Databases A-Z 

Purchasing suggestions and interlibrary loans 

If you cannot find what you are looking for, you can make purchasing suggestions or submit interlibrary loan requests. The librarians at the Social Sciences Faculty Library will help you obtain the material at no extra cost.

Read more about purchasing suggestions on the website of the Faculty of Social Sciences Library.