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Stage 2: Developing the Search: Additional Resources

Additional Resources

Grey Literature

Grey Matters: a practical tool for searching health-related grey literature.

Hand Searching

A free-of-charge online course is offered by the Cochrane Eyes and Vision Group US Project (CEVG@US Project), which is funded by the National Eye Institute (NEI): Handsearching: Identifying and Classifying Controlled Trial Reports

Searching Trial Registries

Searching ClinicalTrials.gov and the international clinical trials registry platform to inform systematic reviews: What are the optimal search approaches?*: Glanville, J. M., M.Sc, Duffy, S., PgDip, McCool, R., B.Sc, & Varley, D., M.Sc. (2014). Journal of the Medical Library Association, 102(3), 177-83.

Contacting Authors

Contacting of authors by systematic reviewers: protocol for a cross-sectional study and a survey. Reynders, R. M., Ladu, L., & Di Girolamo, N. (2017). Systematic reviews, 6(1), 249.

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