Getting started
Resources
Access the resources listed below to learn more about systematic reviews, their process, and examples of studies using systematic review methods.
Books, manuals and methodology guides
Systematic reviews and meta-analysis
- Cochrane Handbook for Systematic Reviews of Interventions ONLINE or PRINT
- JBI Manual for Evidence Synthesis (ebook/wiki)
- Doing a systematic review: a student's guide (print book)
- Systematic approaches to a successful literature review (print book)
- An introduction to systematic reviews (print book)
- Doing your literature Review: traditional and systematic techniques (print book)
- Systematic reviews and meta-analysis (ebook)
- Principles and practice of systematic reviews and meta-analysis (ebook)
Scoping reviews
- Scoping studies: towards a methodological framework (article)
- Scoping studies: advancing the methodology (article)
- Guidance for conducting systematic scoping reviews (article)
- Chapter 11: Scoping Review from JBI Manual for Evidence Synthesis (ebook/wiki)
- An Indigenous-informed scoping review study methodology: advancing the science of scoping reviews (article)
Discipline specific
- Systematic reviews in the social sciences: a practical guide (print book)
- Systematic Reviews in Educational Research: Methodology, Perspectives and Application (ebook)
- Systematic reviews to answer health care questions (print book)
- Literature reviews: modern methods for investigating scientific and technical knowledge (ebook)
- Conducting systematic reviews in sport, exercise, and physical activity (ebook)
Free courses, tutorials, and videos
- Introduction to Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis (Coursera): Free four-part online course which introduces methods to perform systematic reviews and meta-analysis of clinical trials.
- Cochrane Evidence Essentials : Four free online learning modules related to evidence-based medicine and systematic reviews.
- Advanced Research Skills: Conducting Literature and Systematic Reviews: Short self-guided course (ebook) that focuses on the research component of conducting a literature or systematic review.
- Scoping reviews: What they are and how you can do them: A series of videos from a Cochrane Learning Live webinar on scoping reviews delivered in 2017.
