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iSchool Literature and Systematic Reviews: Systematic Reviews
Systematic Searches Tutorial (Yale Library)from the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library, Yale University. Includes 11
Individual modules covering systematic search concepts as well as the Yale MeSH Analyzer.
Systematic Reviews in the Social Sciences by Mark Petticrew; Helen RobertsSuch diverse thinkers as Lao-Tze, Confucius, and U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld have all pointed out that we need to be able to tell the difference between real and assumed knowledge. The systematic review is a scientific tool that can help with this difficult task. It can help, for example, with appraising, summarising, and communicating the results and implications of otherwise unmanageable quantities of data. This book, written by two highly-respected social scientists, provides an overview of systematic literature review methods: Outlining the rationale and methods of systematic reviews; Giving worked examples from social science and other fields; Applying the practice to all social science disciplines; It requires no previous knowledge, but takes the reader through the process stage by stage; Drawing on examples from such diverse fields as psychology, criminology, education, transport, social welfare, public health, and housing and urban policy, among others. Including detailed sections on assessing the quality of both quantitative, and qualitative research; searching for evidence in the social sciences; meta-analytic and other methods of evidence synthesis; publication bias; heterogeneity; and approaches to dissemination.
Use to organize literature by topic, and by other categories such as methodology, findings, and purpose.
(Excel download)
Systematic Review Checklist
PRISMAThe 27 checklist items pertain to the content of a systematic review and meta-analysis, which include the title, abstract, methods, results, discussion and funding.
Example of a Systematic Review from the Literature
Evaluating Approaches to Quality Assessment in Library and Information Science Systematic Reviews: A Methodology ReviewAbstract-Objective: Objective – Systematic reviews are becoming increasingly popular within the Library and Information Science (LIS) domain. This paper has three aims: to review approaches to quality assessment in published LIS systematic reviews in order to assess whether and how LIS reviewers report on quality assessment a priori in systematic reviews, to model the different quality assessment aids used by LIS reviewers, and to explore if and how LIS reviewers report on and incorporate the quality of included studies into the systematic review analysis and conclusions.