Systematic Literature Review on Low-Cost Strategies for Under-Resourced Public Libraries

A systematic literature review dataset compiled following PRISMA guidelines. It contains coded data from peer-reviewed articles published between 2012 and June 2025, sourced from Emerald Insight and the Library Science Database. The dataset was created by Tsholofelo Rakgalakane and last updated in April 2026.

Use Cases

• Analyzing co-occurrence relationships between barriers and enabling strategies based on the coded matrix.
• Identifying common themes in low-cost library service strategies based on extracted findings.
• Assessing the methodological quality and characteristics of included studies for meta-research.
• Comparing applicable strategies across different geographic and economic contexts mentioned in the review scope.

Strengths

• Systematically compiled following PRISMA guidelines, which suggests a structured methodology.
• Includes a quality appraisal score for each included study.
• Covers literature from 2012 to June 2025, providing a 13-year scope.
• Provides a co-occurrence matrix derived from coded thematic data.

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• The dataset is small (68.4 KB), indicating a limited scope of extracted data.

Provenance

Source

figshare

Collection Method

Systematic literature review search of Emerald Insight and Library Science Database (ProQuest).

Time Range

2012 to June 2025

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-24 08:03:42; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Focus on low- and middle-income countries, with South Africa as the primary context.