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Getting Started with Systematic Reviews: Organization manuals, other checklists, and books

Organizations supporting systematic reviews and SR manuals

You can connect to organizations that specialize in systematic reviews.  Access to published guidelines for doing reviews is available for each of these.  Access to reviews themselves varies.

Cochrane Collaboration  Check that site for versions and updates. MOST RECENT guidance is here (MECIR).
The 2011 version of the manual may be accessible here.  

Campbell Collaboration (access to guidance on reviews and reviews themselves both appear open).  Also see the recently updated manual on searching here  Searching for studies: a guide to information retrieval for Campbell systematic reviews

EPPI-Center (access to guidelines for reviews is open; access to reviews/reports may also be open)

Centre for Reviews and Dissemination (guidance for doing reviews is open)

Joanna Briggs Institute Look under "About" for their *approach. This is their softwareThis is their 2020 manual.

Books - primarily covering standard systematic reviews

  • Booth, A., Papaioannou, D., & Sutton, A. (2012). Systematic approaches to a successful literature review. London: Sage.  Copy at KSU.
  • Littell, J. H. (2008). Systematic reviews and meta-analysis / Julia H. Littell, Jacqueline Corcoran, Vijayan Pillai. Oxford University Press. Cloth and ebook copies at KSU.
  • Nelson, H. D. (2014). Systematic reviews to answer health care questions. Philadelphia: Wolters Kluwer Health. Ebook copy at KSU.
  • Cooper, H. M. (2017). Research synthesis and meta-analysis: a step-by-step approach (Fifth edition). Thousand Oaks, California: SAGE Publications, Inc. Two copies at KSU.
  • Boland, A., Cherry, M. G., & Dickson, R. (Eds.). (2017). Doing a systematic review: a student’s guide (2nd edition). London: SAGE. One copy circulates.  A second copy is on Reserve.
  • Foster, M. J., & Jewell, S. T. (Eds.). (2017). Assembling the pieces of a systematic review: a guide for librarians. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield. Ebook at KSU.
  • Gough, D., Oliver, S., & Thomas, J. (2017). An introduction to systematic reviews (2nd edition). Los Angeles: SAGE.  Two copies at KSU. One on Reserve.
  • Zawacki-Richter, O., Kerres, M., Bedenlier, S., Bond, M., Buntins, K., Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden GmbH, 2019. Systematic Reviews in Educational Research Methodology, Perspectives and Application