Knowledge Syntheses - Systematic Reviews, Scoping Reviews and More

Courses

  • The Essentials of Conducting Systematic Reviews - An inter-professional team at Queen's University is developing a series of modules to introduce researchers to all stages of the systematic review process. It's currently under development, but some modules have already been made available.
  • Systematic Searches - Devloped by The Yale University's Cushing/Whitney Medical Library, a series of video tutorials about preparing for a review, building search strategies, database searching, and grey literature searching.
  • Knowledge Synthesis: Systematic Reviews and Clinical Decision Making - Learn how to interpret and report systematic review and meta-analysis results, and define strategies for searching and critically appraising scientific literature (MDAndersonX).
  • Evidence Synthesis Training (Environmental Evidence) - Open educational training courses covering different evidence synthesis methods suitable for environmental and ecological research, such as systematic review and systematic mapping, stakeholder engagement, and evidence synthesis technologies.
  • Scoping Review Methods for Producing Research Syntheses - Two-part, online workshop sponsored by the Center on Knowledge Translation for Disability and Rehabilitation Research (KTDRR).
  • Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analysis: A Campbell Collaboration Online Course - From Carnegie Mellon this course provides an overview of the steps involved in conducting a systematic (scientific) review of results of multiple quantitative studies. These steps include: problem formulation, searching for relevant literature, screening potentially eligible studies, coding and critically appraising studies, synthesizing results across studies using meta-analysis, reporting and disseminating results, and updating or re-analysis of data.
  • Advanced Research Skills: Conducting Literature and Systematic Reviews- From librarians at Toronto Metropolitan University Library, this short course was designed to help graduate students understand how to conduct a review. It comprises four modules: Module 1 Types of Reviews; Module 2 Formulating a Research Question & Searching; Module 3 Organizing, Managing and Screen Sources; and, Module 4 Strategic Reading.
  • Introduction to Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis - From Johns Hopkins University this six module course will introduce methods to perform systematic reviews and meta-analysis of clinical trials. This Coursera course covers how to formulate an answerable research question, define inclusion and exclusion criteria, ssearch for the evidence, extract data, assess the risk of bias in clinical trials, and perform a meta-analysis.
  • Piecing Together Systematic Reviews - From the US National Library of Medicine, a five part series of webinars about the PIECCESS review cycle as described in the book by Margaret J. Foster and Sarah T. Jewell Piecing Together Systematic Reviews and Other Evidence Syntheses (2022). Registration is required for course participation, but recordings, slides and handouts are available for previous classes.

Video tutorials and webinars

Books