Systematic Reviews

Librarians at NUSL conduct workshops on various topics throughout the year, mostly under our flagship Researcher Unbound platform. Most workshops have PowerPoint presentations/videos which are archived (for NUS staff and students only). Below are some workshops suitable for those working on Systematic Review.

• Toby J Lasserson, James Thomas, Julian PT Higgins (editors). Chapter 1: Starting a review. In: Higgins JPT, Thomas J, Chandler J, Cumpston M, Li T, Page MJ, Welch VA (editors). Cochrane Handbook for Systematic Reviews of Interventions version 6.2 (updated February 2021). Cochrane, 2021. Available from www.training.cochrane.org/handbook.
• Bettany-Saltikov, J. (2010). Learning how to undertake a systematic review: part 1. Nurs Stand, 24(50), 47-55; quiz 56. https://doi.org/10.7748/ns2010.08.24.50.47.c7939 
• Khan, K. S., Kunz, R., Kleijnen, J., & Antes, G. (2003). Five steps to conducting a systematic review. Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, 96(3), 118-121. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC539417/ 

• Grant, M. J., & Booth, A. (2009). A typology of reviews: an analysis of 14 review types and associated methodologies. Health Info Libr J, 26(2), 91-108. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1471-1842.2009.00848.x

• Munn, Z., Stern, C., Aromataris, E., Lockwood, C., & Jordan, Z. (2018). What kind of systematic review should I conduct? A proposed typology and guidance for systematic reviewers in the medical and health sciences. BMC Medical Research Methodology, 18(1), 5. https://bmcmedresmethodol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12874-017-0468-4

• Foster, M. & Jewell, S. (Eds). (2017). Assembling the pieces of a systematic review: Guide for librarians. Medical Library Association, Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield.

• Mlinarić, A., Horvat, M., & Šupak Smolčić, V. (2017). Dealing with the positive publication bias: Why you should really publish your negative results. Biochemia medica, 27(3), 030201-030201. https://doi.org/10.11613/BM.2017.030201

• Cooper, C., Booth, A., Varley-Campbell, J. et al. Defining the process to literature searching in systematic reviews: a literature review of guidance and supporting studies. BMC Med Res Methodol 18, 85 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12874-018-0545-3

• Kugley, S., Wade, A., Thomas, J., Mahood, Q., Jørgensen, A.-M.K., Hammerstrøm, K. and Sathe, N. (2017), Searching for studies: a guide to information retrieval for Campbell systematic reviews. Campbell Systematic Reviews, 13: 1-73. https://doi.org/10.4073/cmg.2016.1

• Best Practices in Systematic Reviews: The Importance of Protocols and Registration 

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Read about our Systematic Review teaching activities at these publications: 

Lim S. C., Naidu, S., Toh K. K. (2022, April 27). 5 challenges encountered when creating a MOOC during COVID-19. Teaching Connections, https://blog.nus.edu.sg/teachingconnections/2022/04/26/5-challenges-encountered-when-creating-a-mooc-course-during-covid-19/ 

Lee, M. L. C., Rickard Liow, S. J. R., Sze W. P., Chin, A., Lim S. C., & Ng, M. T. T. (2022, June 20). Interdisciplinary faculty-librarian collaboration in NUS: An insider’s view. Teaching Connections. https://blog.nus.edu.sg/teachingconnections/2022/06/20/interdisciplinary-faculty-librarian-collaboration-in-nus-an-insiders-view/