Graduate Students Orientation: Lit./Syst. Review: Resources

Sep 19th 2025. Online

discussing your search strategies in appropriate databases

Covidence acounts should be set up using your yorku.ca email. York University patrons can then request institutional access from here (comes with added benefits). Covidence is a systematic reviews production tool for title/abstract screening, full-text screening, data abstraction, and quality assessment. Covidence has been designed by researchers familiar with the systematic review process in order to make conducting reviews more efficient.

Links to Scopus, Web of Science, PubMed, Medline (Ovid) and other subscribed databases

Evidence-based medicine (EBM) is a growing, international movement in health care that aims to bring the best evidence from medical research to the bedside, clinic, and community.

The complete evidence-based practice content set from the Joanna Briggs Institute (JBI)

The TRIP Database is a clinical search tool designed to allow health professionals to rapidly identify the highest quality clinical evidence for clinical practice. Registered users (registration is free) benefit from extra features such as CPD, search history, and collaborative tools.

PubMed search type 2 diabetes AND diet therapy.

Use multiple seed papers and overlapping maps, combining search with citation relationships and visualization

Customizable tool , use multiple seed papers in an iterative process

Simple but powerful one shot visualization tool using one seed paper

ResearchRabbit is a free online AI-based science mapping tool that can be linked with your citation manager (Zotero, Mendeley, EndNote) to start mapping instantly, based on 'seed papers'.

Courtesy: David Dunaetz

Courtesy: The Campbell Collaboration