Guides: Systematic Reviews: Locating Systematic Reviews

Locating Systematic Reviews

Before starting work on a systematic review check to ensure that a systematic review does not already exist, or is currently under way.

A check of what systematic reviews already exist in your discipline may also provide a starting point for selecting a review topic.

Systematic Review Databases

The following databases extensively index the systematic review literature in their discipline.

	Campbell Collaboration - Campbell Collaboration (C2) helps people make well-informed decisions by preparing, maintaining and disseminating systematic reviews in education, crime and justice, and social welfare.
	Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (CDSR) - Cochrane Reviews - Includes all Cochrane Reviews (and protocols) prepared by Cochrane Review Groups. Each Cochrane Review is a peer-reviewed systematic review that has been prepared and supervised by a Cochrane Review Group according to the Cochrane Handbook for Systematic Reviews of Interventions or Cochrane Handbook for Diagnostic Test Accuracy Reviews.
DARE	Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects seeks to identify the best quality systematic reviews being published. It complements the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews by offering a selection of quality-assessed reviews in those subjects where there is currently no Cochrane Review.
DoPHER	DoPHER (Database of Promoting Health Effectiveness Reviews) contains details of over 2,500 reviews of health promotion and public health effectiveness.
	The Evidence for Policy and Practice Information and Co-ordinating Centre (EPPI-Centre) is part of the Social Science Research Unit at the Institute of Education, University of London. EPPI develops systematic reviews and developing review methods in social science and public policy.
	Joanna Briggs Institute - an international collaboration involving nursing, medical and allied health researchers, clinicians, academics and quality managers across 40 countries in every continent. The University of Newcastle is an Evidence Synthesis Group, within the Evidence Based Health Care Group.
	OTSeeker - database that contains abstracts of systematic reviews and randomised controlled trials relevant to occupational therapy.
	PEDro is the Physiotherapy Evidence Database. PEDro is a free database of over 20,000 randomised trials, systematic reviews and clinical practice guidelines in physiotherapy.
	PsycBITE indexes systematic reviews, randomised controlled trials, case series on cognitive, behavioural and other treatments for psychological problems and issues occurring as a consequence of acquired brain impairment (ABI). These studies are rated for their methodological quality, evaluating various aspects of scientific rigour.
	SpeechBite is an evidence based practice initiative between The University of Sydney and Speech Pathology Australia. Studies on this database include Systematic Reviews (SR), Randomised Controlled Trials (RCT), Non-Randomised Controlled Trials (non-RCT), Case Series (CS), and Single Case Experimental Design (SCED).