Interface: Ovid MEDLINE(R) and Epub Ahead of Print, In-Process & Other Non-Indexed Citations and Daily Date of Search: 27 Sept 2021 Number of hits: 372 Comment: In Ovid, two or more words are automatically searched as phrases; i.e. no quotation marks are needed	Field labels exp/= exploded MeSH term /= non exploded MeSH term .ti,ab,kf. = title, abstract and author keywords adjx = within x words, regardless of order * = truncation of word for alternate endings
Database(s): Ovid MEDLINE(R) and Epub Ahead of Print, In-Process, In-Data-Review & Other Non-Indexed Citations and Daily 1946 to September 27, 2021 Search Strategy:
#	Searches	Results
1	exp Sustainable Development/	1467
2	exp Education, Graduate/	91413
3	exp Universities/	45504
4	(college* or graduate educat* or higher educat* or post-secondary educat* or tertiary educat* or third-level educat* or universit*).ti,ab,kf.	530524
5	2 or 3 or 4	621056
6	(agenda 2030 or SDG or smart growth or sustainability educat* or sustainable develop* or sustainable develop*).ti,ab,kf.	10748
7	((UN or united nation*) adj3 development goal*).ti,ab,kf.	939
8	6 or 7	10977
9	1 or 8	11593
10	5 and 9	372
Search strategy for Web of Science database
Interface: Clarivate Analytics Date of Search: 28 Sept 2021 Number of hits: 3750	Field labels TS/Topic = title, abstract, author keywords and Keywords Plus NEAR/x = within x words, regardless of order * = truncation of word for alternate endings
	Note: sometimes ‘quotation marks’ are needed for single search terms to avoid automatic term mapping (lemmatisation).
5
(#3) AND #4
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3,750
4
(#1) OR #2
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69,679
3
TS=((‘higher educat*’ OR ‘tertiary educat*’ OR ‘post-secondary educat*’ OR ‘third-level educat*’ OR universit* OR college*))
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951,655
2
TS=((‘UN’ or ‘united nation*’) NEAR/2 ‘development goal*’)
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2,740
1
‘agenda 2030’ (Topic) or ‘SDG’ (Topic) or ‘smart growth’ (Topic) or ‘sustainability educat*’ (Topic) or ‘sustainable develop*’ (Topic) or ‘sustainble develop*’ (Topic)
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69,351
Search strategy for Global Health database
Interface: Wiley Date of Search: 30th Sept 2021 Number of hits: 203
Database(s): Global Health 1973 to 2021 Week 38 Search Strategy:
#	Searches	Results
1	(college* or graduate educat* or higher educat* or post-secondary educat* or tertiary educat* or third-level educat* or universit*).ab. or (college* or graduate educat* or higher educat* or post-secondary educat* or tertiary educat* or third-level educat* or universit*).ti.	106105
2	exp universities/	4247
3	exp higher education/	1235
4	(agenda 2030 or SDG or smart growth or sustainability educat* or sustainable develop* or sustainble develop*).ab. or (agenda 2030 or SDG or smart growth or sustainability educat* or sustainable develop* or sustainble develop*).ti.	6030
5	((UN or united nation*) adj3 development goal*).ab. or ((UN or united nation*) adj3 development goal*).ti.	555
6	1 or 2 or 3	106595
7	4 or 5	6222
8	6 and 7	203
Search strategy for ERIC database
Interface: ProQuest Date of Search: 6th Oct 2021 Number of hits: 1883
#1	MAINSUBJECT.EXACT.EXPLODE(‘Sustainable Development’)	4,345
#2	TI,AB(‘agenda 2030’ OR ‘SDG’ OR ‘smart growth’ OR ‘sustainability educat*’ OR ‘sustainable develop*’ OR ‘sustainble develop*’)	2,954
#3	TI,AB((‘UN’ OR ‘united nation*’) NEAR/3 ‘development goal*’)	140
#4	MAINSUBJECT.EXACT.EXPLODE(‘Higher Education’)	310,656
#5	MAINSUBJECT.EXACT.EXPLODE(‘Universities’)	34,030
#6	TI,AB(college* or ‘graduate educat*’ or ‘higher educat*’ or ‘post-secondary educat*’ or ‘tertiary educat*’ or ‘third-level educat*’ or universit*)	394,673
#7	#1 or #2 or #3	5110
#8	#4 or #5 or #6	529,036
#9	#7 AND #8	1883