This guide is intended to provide an overview of some of the methodological and practical considerations required when undertaking the search component of a systematic review. The guide signposts to resources to aid the process of undertaking a systematic review and enhance a review’s quality and reporting standards. The guide should, therefore, not be seen as extensive nor a handbook. This resource is not necessarily intended to be read in a linear fashion. As an example, if your search skills require development then you may wish to review the resources in the ‘Developing a search strategy’ section prior to undertaking a scoping search.

A guidance document on how to connect your ORCID to your University profile, importing publications from ORCID to Enlighten and how to export publications from Enlighten to ORCID.

Workshop recording, slides and exercises from the systematic review workshop presented to Doctorate in Clinical Psychology candidates. This workshop covers search formulation templates, including developing inclusion and exclusion criteria, undertaking scoping searches and practical searching exercises. Slides best viewed in Slide Show mode. This is the workshop counterpart to the lecture "Introduction to systematic reviews" (https://edshare.gla.ac.uk/135/). The resources "Formulating a research question and structuring a literature search" (https://edshare.gla.ac.uk/38/) and "Developing literature search strategies" (https://edshare.gla.ac.uk/76/) cover the elements of literature searching in more detail.

Workshop recording, slides and exercises from Discovering Information and Developing Rigour and Validity in Literature Searches at Doctoral Level. This is a workshop delivered as part of the College of Medical, Veterinary & Life Sciences Research Training Programme. Please note that watching the class recording and undertaking the exercises does not qualify you for the class credits. The workshop aims are that by the end of the workshop you should… - Understand the various literature review styles available and strengths and weaknesses of each - Be able to structure a search strategy for effective literature searching - Utilise advanced search techniques to find relevant information in your research field - Use basic text mining techniques to improve the precision and sensitivity of searches - Use article data to identify prominent literature and authors within your field.

Slides from a workshop for Doctorate in Clinical Psychology candidates on the search methods for systematic reviews.

Truncation and wildcard crib sheet for key library databases in Medical, Veterinary and Life Sciences (MVLS)

This guide provides information on searching key library databases in Medical, Veterinary and Life Sciences. The searches performed in the videos take you beyond simple textword (keyword) searching and introduce a level of rigour with the addition of subject headings to a search. The processes illustrated are relevant to all types of literature review, although systematic-type searches will need to be a lot more exhaustive in the use of synonyms, acronyms and additionally searching and browsing for relevant subject headings. Refer to the database help text for detailed search guidance for each database.

Information on using Library Search or browser extensions to find full-text pdf articles and what to do if full-text is not available.

This short video will show you how to find and evaluate existing collaborators and identify and model potential new collaborations.

This short video will show you how to compare your research against others using the University Research KPIs.

This short video will show you how to find yourself (or anyone else) in SciVal and see an overview of your research indicators.

Lecture recording and slides introducing searching for systematic reviews and presented to Doctorate in Clinical Psychology candidates. This lecture introduces systematic reviews as a literature type and methodology, raises potential issues when developing research questions and search strategies, and highlights sources for further guidance and support. Slides best viewed in Slide Show mode. The resources "Formulating a research question and structuring a literature search" (https://edshare.gla.ac.uk/38/) and "Developing literature search strategies" (https://edshare.gla.ac.uk/76/) cover the elements of literature searching in more detail.