Documenting your search results
It's good practice to document and save your search results and methods for how you found your information.
By saving your search results in one place, you'll be able to re-run, edit or share your results and strategies with other people and keep a thorough record of your review process.
- Alerts for researchers
Learn how to setup search alerts, journal alerts, citation alerts and RSS feeds to stay up-to-date with the latest publications in your research area.
-
EndNote guide
EndNote and other reference management software is another way to store, organise, de-duplicate and annotate your literature searches.
You can also share your EndNote library with other authors or your supervisor, which is useful when working on a review as part of a team.
-
UOW Library systematic review workbook
The documenting results section of the Library's systematic review workbook will take you through why you should document your results as part of this review type, and how you might document your results.
You can also share your library with other authors or your supervisor.
- UOW Literature Review Search Tracker
Use this spreadsheet to plan, organise and retrieve your search strategies across multiple databases.
NOTE: If you are using EndNote for your Systematic Literature Review, you can use this document to keep track of the development of your search strategy, but you do not need to worry about populating it with your actual search results.
Evidence Based Medicine (EBM) or Evidence Based Practice (EBP) often requires a Systematic Literature Review (SLR).
