LibGuides: Evidence Synthesis: Tools and Guidelines

Catchii This link opens in a new window
Free software application for systematic review literature screening.
The Evidence Review Accelerator (TERA) This link opens in a new window
A collaborative multi-study research accelerator that enables both reviews and studies to be conducted faster with no impact on the quality of the research.
HAWC - Health Assessment Workspace Collaborative This link opens in a new window
A content management system for health assessments.
PredicTER This link opens in a new window
PredicTER is an open-source tool to estimate time requirements for a systematic review/systematic map.
SyRF - Systematic Review Facility (UK) This link opens in a new window
An online platform to aid you in your systematic reviews and meta-analyses of in vivo studies.
The Systematic Review Toolbox This link opens in a new window
The Systematic Review Toolbox is an online catalogue of tools that support various tasks within the systematic review and wider evidence synthesis process.

citationcchaser This link opens in a new window
Automates forward and backward citation searching using Lens.org data.
Polyglot Search Translator This link opens in a new window
A tool to translate search strings across databases to aid in running searches.
PubMed PubReMiner This link opens in a new window
A tool provided by PubMed that conducts text mining and subject heading searches based on a set of relevant PMIDs.
Yale MeSH Analyzer This link opens in a new window
Find relevant MeSH terms based on a set of PubMed IDs from benchmark studies.

Guidelines and Standards for Evidence Synthesis in Environmental Management This link opens in a new window
The Collaboration for Environmental Evidence (CEE) is an open community of scientists and managers working towards a sustainable global environment and the conservation of biodiversity. They provide guidelines and standards for evidence synthesis in environmental management.
Systematic Reviews for Animals & Food (SYREAF) This link opens in a new window
Repository for review protocols and systematic reviews in any area related to food, food production, food safety, animal health, and animal welfare. SYREAF also provides information about carrying out systematic reviews.

Foo, Y. Z., O'Dea, R. E., Koricheva, J., Nakagawa, S., & Lagisz, M. (2021). A practical guide to question formation, systematic searching and study screening for literature reviews in ecology and evolution. Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 12(9), 1705-1720. https://doi.org/10.1111/2041-210X.13654
O'Dea, R. E., Lagisz, M., Jennions, M. D., Koricheva, J., Noble, D. W., Parker, T. H., ... & Nakagawa, S. (2021). Preferred reporting items for systematic reviews and meta‐analyses in ecology and evolutionary biology: a PRISMA extension. Biological Reviews, 96(5), 1695-1722. https://doi.org/10.1111/brv.12721