Background: Literature for a systematic review on the student experience of elearning is
located across a range of subject areas including health, education, social science, library …

Background: To minimise retrieval bias, manual literature searches are a key part of the
search process of any systematic review. Considering the need to have accurate …

Abstract The Cochrane Collaboration was established in 1993, following the opening of the
UK Cochrane Centre in 1992, at a time when searching for studies for inclusion in …

Purpose: This paper will provide a description of the methods, skills, and knowledge of
expert searchers working on systematic review teams. Brief Description: Systematic reviews …

Background Within systematic reviews, when searching for relevant references, it is
advisable to use multiple databases. However, searching databases is laborious and time …

As systematic reviews become more common in the social sciences journal literature, it is
important for social science librarians to be familiar with this methodology. Knowledge of …

Background Different approaches can be adopted for the development of search strategies
of systematic reviews. The objective approach draws on already established text analysis …

Systematic literature reviews are common in social research for integrating and synthesising
existing research. This paper argues that the outcomes of such reviews are affected by the …

Objective To compare the sensitivity, precision, and the costs in time of searching by hand
and by MEDLINE to identify randomized controlled trials (RCTs) for systematic reviews …

Background: systematic reviews are of increasing importance to health care professionals
seeking to provide evidence-based health care, because they provide systematically …