Research Guides: Systematic Reviews &amp; Evidence Synthesis Methods: Open Access Evidence Synthesis Resources

Open Access Evidence Synthesis Resources

If you know of open access evidence synthesis tools that should be incorporated into this guide, please email us at libsystematicreviews@uci.edu.

Evidence Synthesis Institute
The Evidence Synthesis Institute is a training program aimed at library staff supporting evidence syntheses in topics outside of the health sciences, and is fully funded by the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS). The teaching slides from this institute are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. Slides cover all aspects of the evidence synthesis process and much of the content is applicable to researchers as well as librarians.
Introduction to Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
This Massive Open Online Course (MOOC), offered through Coursera, describes and provides instruction for completing all stages of systematic reviews and meta-analyses.
Cochrane Interactive Learning
Provides tutorials for performing systematic reviews on health-related topics. Module 1: Introduction to Conducting Systematic Reviews is free if you sign up for a Cochrane account.

SR Toolbox
A web-based catalogue of tools that support various tasks within the systematic review and wider evidence synthesis process.
Rayyan
Free article screening tool.
Zotero
Free citation management tool.
RawGraphs
Free tool for creating appealing graphs.
Open Science Framework Preregistration
Free, open source resource for preregistering evidence synthesis protocols, with well-documented guidance on using the tool.
SnowGlobe
Free tool for "snowballing" included resources (locating their citations, and those papers that have cited them).

PubMed@UCI This link opens in a new window
comprises more than 32 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. Citations may include links to full text content from PubMed Central and publisher web sites. The PubMed Trainer's Toolkit contains instruction materials and short tutorials for navigating PubMed.