Systematic Reviews & Evidence Based Reviews

Public library created by Cornell University of Evidence Synthesis Articles. Covers not only previously published systematic reviews/evidence syntheses, but articles on topics related to all stages of evidence synthesis, including article screening, de-duplication, gray literature, protocols, bias assessment, and more.

Teaching slides from the Evidence Synthesis Institute, a training program aimed at librarians and library staff. Slides cover all aspects of the evidence synthesis process and much of the content is applicable to researchers as well as librarians.

This Massive Open Online Course (MOOC), offered through Coursera, describes and provides instruction for completing all stages of systematic reviews and meta-analyses.

Tutorials for performing systematic reviews on health-related topics. Module 1: Introduction to Conducting Systematic Reviews is free if you sign up for a Cochrane account.

INASP provides a free search strategies tutorial (via Moodle) to teach users how to clearly define and describe a search topic, identify suitable search terms, pick the best platform(s) on which to search, and use tools and techniques to refine and modify your search.

A web-based catalogue of tools that support various tasks within the systematic review / evidence synthesis process

Free article scanning tool

Guide from the Libraries on Zotero, a free citation management tool

Free tool for creating graphs

Free, open source resource for preregistering evidence synthesis protocols, with well-documented guidance on using the tool

Free tool for "snowballing" included resources (locating their citations, and those papers that have cited them).

Free resource supporting the search and retrieval of biomedical and life sciences literature with the aim of improving health–both globally and personally. Contains more than 30 million citations and abstracts of biomedical literature. The PubMed Trainer's toolkit contains instruction materials and short tutorials for navigating PubMed.

A directory of grey resources compiled by GreyNet International