Librarian Support for Student Knowledge Synthesis Projects in Nursing: Knowledge Synthesis 101 Video Series

This video covers the basics of getting started with your review, including an overview of the resources, preparation, and the amount of time needed for a review project, the differences between types of reviews, how to match review type with research question, process and reporting guidelines, search frameworks, and defining the main concepts in a review question.

This video covers the protocol/proposal for your review, including the parts needed for a well-developed protocol, the importance and approach to searching for existing and ongoing reviews and finding "seed" studies, how to identify databases and grey literature sources for inclusion in your review, and protocol publication/registration.

This video covers the importance of comprehensive, transparent, and reproducible searches for knowledge synthesis, as well as the difference between precision and sensitivity in search. Strategies for creating a comprehensive search are discussed and demonstrated, including how to test searches against your seed studies.

Part 4: Translation, Running the Search, Deduplication, & Documentation/ Reporting is not yet complete. In the meantime, the end of the following video covers most of these topics, including: 

• Saving, exporting, and importing search results (55:33)
• Deduplication (1:00:15)
• Reporting with PRISMA-S (1:02:21)
• Example search and reporting (1:08:18)