Stage 2: Developing the Search: Additional Resources

Additional Resources

• Tip Sheet - Boolean Search Tips from McGill University
• Database search tips from Monash University

Organizing Terminology

• Pubvenn - Website with tool to help you practice boolean logic
• Database reference guide - A quick reference page which indicates database-specific information (e.g., truncating in OVID vs CINAHL)
• Using text mining for study identification in systematic reviews: a systematic review of current approaches: O’Mara-Eves, A., Thomas, J., McNaught, J., Miwa, M., & Ananiadou, S. (2015). Systematic reviews, 4(1).

Search Filters

• Tutorial from Yale University Library on Using Filters and Hedges
• Choosing and using methodological search filters: searchers' views: Beale, S., Duffy, S., Glanville, J., Lefebvre, C., Wright, D., McCool, R., ... & Smith, L. (2014). Health Information & Libraries Journal, 31(2), 133-147.
• Reporting methodological search filter performance comparisons: a literature review: Harbour, J., Fraser, C., Lefebvre, C., Glanville, J., Beale, S., Boachie, C., ... & Smith, L. (2014). Health Information & Libraries Journal, 31(3), 176-194.
• Retrieving randomized controlled trials from medline: a comparison of 38 published search filters. McKibbon, K. A., Wilczynski, N. L., & Haynes, R. B. (2009). Health Information & Libraries Journal, 26(3), 187-202.