Need help with a systematic review? Health Sciences Library experts and resources are here for you for all types of reviews, from critical reviews, to mapping reviews, to scoping studies, and more. Both the Cochrane Collaboration and the Institute of Medicine recommend authors of systematic reviews work with librarians to identify the best possible evidence. Let us help you prepare your review with the best methods possible!
Claude Moore Health Sciences librarians are active partners in the development of rigorous systematic reviews at UVA Health. We offer two models for librarian participation in systematic and other review types, such as scoping and narrative reviews. Services below are generally limited to UVA Health faculty, staff, and students.
Consult model:
A librarian will discuss your topic, review any terms you have or show you how to develop search terms, advise on database selection, and give you an overview of the review process. Review teams then run their own searches.
Collaboration model:
A librarian is part of the review team and due to their contributions, co-authorship is expected. Librarian contributions may include the following:
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Systematic Review Resources
Working on a systematic or other type of review? These guides and tools may be useful:
Guidelines, Manuals and Protocols
Guidelines and tools are available to assist you with the planning and workflow of your review.
Additional Guidance
Selected guides we've found useful for planning and executing the various stages of your review:
Managing References
Collecting your citations is an important step in any review. Software and web-based tools assist with this process. All of the following tools have features to help with both formatting your in-text citations and your bibliography.
Want help comparing these tools? See our Citation Managers guide.
Need help learning one of these tools? Contact us and we'll be happy to assist.
Screening and Study Selection
Much of the work in a review involves managing the process of title and abstract screening and study selection. Fortunately there are tools that facilitate this process with features to import citations, screen titles and abstracts, etc.
Want to learn more? Check out these resources:
Read more from this article comparing Covidence and Rayyan (Couban, 2016)
Another comparison of Covidence and Rayyan (Kellermeyer, 2018)
SR Toolbox - look up a tool to learn more, or, search by features you want the tool to support (e.g. data extraction).
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