An inter-professional team at the Queens' University Library has developed The Essentials of Conducting Systematic Reviews, a freely available online module series which aims to introduce researchers to all stages of the systematic review process. The series is currently under development and content will be added as it becomes available.
Cochrane Interactive Learning offers an online course Conducting an Intervention Review.
It includes modules on all the different steps of a systematic review, as well as separate modules on meta-analysis, qualitative evidence synthesis and rapid reviews.
Authors of Cochrane Reviews that have been active in the last 12 months receive free access to the full course.
The Johns Hopkins University offers the online course Introduction to Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.
It covers how to formulate an answerable research question,define inclusion and exclusion criteria, search for the evidence, extract data, assess the risk of bias in clinical trials and perform a meta-analysis.
Check out the Coursera website for more details and the next course offering.
Systematic Searches (Yale University)
This series of tutorials on searching for systematic reviews has been developed by The Yale University's Cushing/Whitney Medical Library. The goal of these tutorials is to ensure that your search is comprehensive, methodical, transparent and reproducible, so that your conclusions are as unbiased and closer to truth as possible. Topics include building search strategies, using filters and finding grey literature.
