Thesis and Academic Process

Literature Review Consulting

Support in finding current, relevant and reliable sources.

Overview

We design a systematic search strategy so that you can reach current sources directly relevant to your study without getting lost in the literature. We also guide you on reference management and citation style.

Web of ScienceScopusGoogle ScholarTR DizinYÖK National Thesis CenterZotero

What we do in this service

  • Systematic search strategies across databases
  • Identifying current, high-quality sources
  • Consulting on reference and citation styles (APA 7 etc.)
  • Building a literature map

Example topics

01A literature map covering the past five years of research in the field
02A comparison table of theories for the conceptual framework
03Searching for similar studies in the YÖK (Council of Higher Education) National Thesis Center
04Setting up a Zotero library and tagging system

These examples illustrate the scope of the service; every project is planned around its own research question.

What you will have at the end

A personalised process plan and timeline
Checklists and written feedback
Meeting notes and action items
Review against your institution's guidelines

Who is it for?

Anyone working on a thesis, article or research project

Frequently asked questions

It depends on your field: PubMed for health sciences, Web of Science and Scopus for the social sciences, and TR Dizin and the YÖK National Thesis Center for Turkish-language literature. We set out a database strategy tailored to you.

We guide you through legal routes such as your university library's remote access, open-access versions, institutional repositories and contacting the authors.