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Systematic Reviews for Non-Health Sciences

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Management & screening

Interested in using a screening tool for your systematic review? Here are some questions to think about:

  1. Are you limited to free tools only or does your research team have funding available to pay for a tool?
  2. Are you planning on using the tool for title/abstract or full-text screening? What about data extraction?
  3. Are you interested in using machine learning to help expedite the screening process?
  4. Are you OK with your project being publicly available or would you rather it stay private? Many free versions of these tools don't allow for a private option.
  5. Within your discipline, is there a tool that is commonly used? For example, Covidence is routinely used in the health sciences, while CADIMA is popular in the environmental sciences.

Data extraction

Citation management

Citation tools allow you to save and organize your research. They also let you create formatted bibliographies.

Zotero

Downloadable as a standalone program or a Firefox extension, Zotero is designed to store content in any format, including PDFs, images, audio and video files, and snapshots of web pages. Zotero operates with thousands of sites, and automatically indexes your library for ease of access.

Downloadable as a standalone program from OIT, EndNote is a powerful citation tool for organizing your research and creating formatted citations. In addition to the standalone option, you can create an EndNote Web account.

 

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A personal citation library designed to directly import references from multiple databases. In Refworks you can organize and manage your citations, share them with colleagues, and format bibliographies.