Stage 7: Writing & Publishing your Review: Resources

All Resources from Stage 7: Writing & Publishing your Review

Step 1: How to Write your Review

Reporting standards:

• Equator Network - a repository of reporting guidelines for health sciences
• Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) Checklist (PDF or DOC)
• Cochrane Handbook for Systematic Reviews of Interventions
• Joanna Briggs Institute (JBI) Reviewers Manual
• York University Centre for Reviews and Dissemination Guidance for Undertaking Systematic Reviews in Health Care (PDF or HTML)
• Meta-analysis Of Observational Studies in Epidemiology (MOOSE) Guidelines for Meta-Analyses and Systematic Reviews of Observational Studies (PDF)
• Meta-Analysis Reporting Standards (MARS) (PDF)
• Realist Syntheses and Meta-Narrative Review Reporting Standards from The RAMESES Project

Step 2: How to Publish your Review

• Guide on Predatory Publishers
• Making your publications open access: Resources to assist researchers and librarians. Dawson, D. (2013). College & Research Library News, 74(9), 473–476.
• Physician and Patient-oriented Open Access to Research (Webinar, 2018). Presented by Dr. John Willinksy, Professor, Graduate School of Education, Stanford University.

Open Access Repositories by Discipline

Full-publications

• Health & life sciences: PubMed Central (US; Canada's discontinued)
• Psychology, neuroscience, linguistics, computer science, philosophy, and biology: Cogprints
• Humanities: CORE

Preprints

• Social sciences: SocArXiv
• Agriculture: AgriXiv
• Physics, mathematics, computer science, quantitative biology, economics, finance, statistics: rXiv

Step 3: Where to Promote your Research

• Promotional Toolkit: Wiley's " one-stop shop for helping authors promote their work"

From the Wiley Network Blog:

• How to Judge the News Value of your Paper
• Using Altmetrics and Social Media for Research and Networking
• How to Promote your Research through Blogging