Planning For Your Expert Literature Review

Sharing your systematic or scoping review protocol is a recognized best practice. It will increase the visibility of your work, guard against post-hoc methodological diversions, assist you in finding collaborators, and allow you to claim your topic.

• figshare

Users can post open research to figshare.

• OSF Registries

Open Science Framework (OSF) allows you to post your protocols on the OSF Registries platform.

• PROSPERO

PROSPERO accepts protocol registrations for systematic reviews, rapid reviews, and umbrella reviews. It does not accept scoping reviews or other types of reviews.

• protocols.io

Share your methods for any type of literature review ahead of time on protocols.io.

• ScholarWorks @ TU

You may choose to post your protocol on our institutional repository, ScholarWorks.

• MeSH Browser contains subject headings and suggested synonyms from the US National Library of Medicine
• PubReMiner can assist with identifying terminology characteristics of key articles
• SR Accelerator has a variety of tools from search translation to citation chasing to deduplicating and screening
• VisuWords is a graphical dictionary that can identify additional search terms
• CitationChaser helps you forward and backward search on your included items

• EndNote (paid version)
• EndNote Web (free version)
• Mendeley
• Zotero

Check out our guides on EndNote Web, Mendeley, and Zotero.

• Covidence ($)
• Rayyan (free)
• SR Accelerator
• SysRev (free/$)

• MetaFor: A Meta-Analysis Package for R
• Open Meta