Systematic Approaches to a Successful Literature Review
Chapter 6 – Searching the Literature
Weblinks to act as supplements to your studies and provide a greater breadth of information.
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Allied and Complementary Medicine Database (AMED)
Available from: https://www.ebscohost.com/academic/amed-the-allied-and-complementary-medicine-database Accessed on: 19/03/2016
BIOSIS.
Available from: https://thomsonreuters.com/en/products-services/scholarly-scientific-research/scholarly-search-and-discovery/biosis-previews.html Accessed on: 19/03/2016
Booth, A. (2011) Chapter 3: Searching for Studies. In J. Noyes, A. Booth, K. Hannes, A. Harden, J. Harris, S. Lewin and C. Lockwood (eds), Supplementary Guidance for Inclusion of Qualitative Research in Cochrane Systematic Reviews of Interventions. Version 1 (updated August 2011). Cochrane Collaboration Qualitative Methods Group. Available from: https://methods.cochrane.org/qi/sites/methods.cochrane.org.qi/files/uploads/DG%20Chapter5_Searching_for_Studies%20%282%29.doc Accessed on: 19/03/2016
British Nursing Index.
Available from: www.proquest.com/products-services/bni.html Accessed on: 19/03/2016
The Campbell Library.
Available from: www.campbellcollaboration.org/lib/ Accessed on: 23/03/2016
Centre for Mental Health.
Available from: www.centreformentalhealth.org.uk/ Accessed on: 23/03/2016
Centre for Reviews and Dissemination Databases.
Available from: www.crd.york.ac.uk/CRDWeb/ Accessed on: 19/03/2016
Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects (DARE)
Available from: www.crd.york.ac.uk/CRDWeb/ Accessed on: 19/03/2016
Health Technology Assessment database (HTA)
Available from: www.crd.york.ac.uk/CRDWeb/ Accessed on: 19/03/2016
NHS economic evaluation database (NHS EED)
Available from: www.crd.york.ac.uk/CRDWeb/ Accessed on: 19/03/2016
Centre for Reviews and Dissemination (2009) CRD’s Guidance for Undertaking Reviews in Healthcare, 3rd edition. York: Centre for Reviews and Dissemination [Online].
Available from: https://www.york.ac.uk/media/crd/Systematic_Reviews.pdf Accessed on: 19/03/2016
CINAHL.
Available from: https://health.ebsco.com/products/the-cinahl-database Accessed on: 19/03/2016
Cite-U-Like.
Available from: www.citeulike.org/ Accessed on: 19/03/2016
Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials (CENTRAL)
Available from: https://community-archive.cochrane.org/editorial-and-publishing-policy-resource/cochrane-central-register-controlled-trials-central Accessed on: 19/03/2016
Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (CDSR).
Available from: www.cochranelibrary.com/cochrane-database-of-systematic-reviews/ Accessed on: 19/03/2016
Cochrane Handbook.
Available from: https://handbook.cochrane.org/ Accessed on: 19/03/2016
The Cochrane Library.
Available from: www.cochranelibrary.com/ Accessed on: 19/03/2016
CrimDoc.
Available from: https://link.library.utoronto.ca/criminology/crimdoc/index.cfm Accessed on: 23/03/2016
Department of Health.
Available from: https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/department-of-health Accessed on: 23/03/2016
Economic and Social Research Council.
Available from: www.esrc.ac.uk/ Accessed on: 23/03/2016
EMBASE.
Available from: https://www.embase.com/ Accessed on: 19/03/2016
Endnote.
Available from: https://endnote.com/ Accessed on: 19/03/2016
EThOS.
Available from: https://ethos.bl.uk/ Accessed on: 23/03/2016
Google Scholar.
Available from: https://scholar.google.com/ Accessed on: 19/03/2016
Grey Matters.
Available from: https://www.cadth.ca/resources/finding-evidence/grey-matters Accessed on: 19/03/2016
GreyNet.
Available from: www.greynet.org/ Accessed on: 19/03/2016
GreySource.
Available from: www.greynet.org/greysourceindex.html Accessed on: 19/03/2016
Higher Education Academy.
Available from: https://www.heacademy.ac.uk/ Accessed on: 23/03/2016
InterTASC Information Specialists' Sub-Group (ISSG) Search Filters Resource.
Available from: https://sites.google.com/a/york.ac.uk/issg-search-filters-resource/home Accessed on: 19/03/2016
ISRCTN Registry.
Available from: www.isrctn.com/ Accessed on: 23/03/2016
Joseph Rowntree Foundation.
Available from: https://www.jrf.org.uk/ Accessed on: 23/03/2016
Literature Searching for Realist Synthesis.
Available from: https://realistsearch.pbworks.com/ Accessed on: 19/03/2016
McMaster University Hedges.
Available from: https://hiru.mcmaster.ca/hiru/HIRU_Hedges_home.aspx Accessed on: 23/03/2016
Mendeley.
Available from: https://www.mendeley.com/ Accessed on: 19/03/2016
National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE).
Available from: https://www.nice.org.uk/ Accessed on: 23/03/2016
NBER Working Papers.
Available from: www.nber.org/papers.html Accessed on: 23/03/2016
OpenGrey.
Available from: www.opengrey.eu/ Accessed on: 19/03/2016
PsycInfo.
Available from: www.apa.org/pubs/databases/psycinfo/ Accessed on: 19/03/2016
PubMed.
Available from: www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed Accessed on: 23/03/2016
PubMed PubReminer.
Available from: https://hgserver2.amc.nl/cgi-bin/miner/miner2.cgi Accessed on: 19/03/2016
RefWorks.
Available from: https://www.refworks.com/ Accessed on: 19/03/2016
ScHARRHUD.
Available from: www.scharrhud.org/ Accessed on: 23/03/2016
Scopus.
Available from: www.scopus.com/ Accessed on: 19/03/2016
Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network (SIGN) Search Filters.
Available from: www.sign.ac.uk/methodology/filters.html Accessed on: 23/03/2016
Social Care Online.
Available from: www.scie-socialcareonline.org.uk/ Accessed on: 23/03/2016
Systematic Review (SR) Toolbox.
Available from: https://systematicreviewtools.com/ Accessed on: 19/03/2016
Touro College Libraries.
Available from: https://www.tourolib.org/ Accessed on: 19/03/2016
UKCRN Portfolio Database.
This has been replaced by a new Central Portfolio Management System (CPMS) and the public access search for clinical trials is now provided from the UK Clinical Trials Gateway website. Available from: https://www.ukctg.nihr.ac.uk/ Accessed on: 23/03/2016
Zotero.
Available from: https://www.zotero.org/ Accessed on: 19/03/2016