  Background: The software engineering community has increasingly conducted
systematic literature reviews (SLR) as a means to summarize evidence from
different studies and bring to light the state of the art of a given research
topic. While SLR provide many benefits, they also present several problems with
punctual solutions for some of them. However, two main problems still remain:
the high time-/effort-consumption nature of SLR and the lack of an effective
impact of SLR results in the industry, as initially expected for SLR. Aims: The
main goal of this paper is to introduce a new view - which we name
Sustainability of SLR - on how to deal with SLR aiming at reducing those
problems. Method: We analyzed six reference studies published in the last
decade to identify, group, and analyze the SLR problems and their
interconnections. Based on such analysis, we proposed the view of
Sustainability of SLR that intends to address these problems. Results: The
proposed view encompasses three dimensions (social, economic, and technical)
that could become SLR more sustainable in the sense that the four major
problems and 31 barriers (i.e., possible causes for those problems) that we
identified could be mitigated. Conclusions: The view of Sustainability of SLR
intends to change the researchers' mindset to mitigate the inherent SLR
problems and, as a consequence, achieve sustainable SLR, i.e., those that
consume less time/effort to be conducted and updated with useful results for
the industry.
