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Stage 2: Developing the Search: Additional Resources
Home
Step 1: What to Search
Toggle Dropdown
Finding Terminology
Organizing Terminology
Search Filters & Hedges
Additional Resources
Step 2: Where to Search
Toggle Dropdown
Select your Databases
Searching Grey Literature
Hand Searching
Searching Trial Registries
Contacting Authors & Experts
Additional Resources
Step 3: How to Create a Search Strategy
Toggle Dropdown
Anatomy of a Search Strategy
Optimize Search Syntax for Different Databases
Validate the Search
Save & Document Search Strategies
Additional Resources
Action: Run your Search
Save & Document the Search Results
Remove Duplicates
Using a Citation Manager
Set Alerts
Additional Resources
Resources
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Search Strategy Example from Scoping Review. From the article: Social media use among patients and caregivers: a scoping review. Hamm, M. et al. (2013). BMJ open, 3 (5), e002819.
Methods for documenting systematic review searches: a discussion of common issues: Rader, T., Mann, M., Stansfield, C., Cooper, C., & Sampson, M. (2014). Research synthesis methods, 5(2), 98-115.
Training for Citation Management Tools
EndNote and EndNote basic (University of Saskatchewan Guide)
Mendeley (YouTube channel)
Mendeley (University of Saskatchewan Guide)
Zotero (YouTube channel)
Zotoro (University of Saskatchewan Guide)
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