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Literature Reviews in the Health Science

Zotero Citation Manager

Zotero

Zotero is a free citation manager. It allows you to create a personal database of references and automatically generate formatted bibliographies for your projects. If you are new to Zotero, feel free to get started with these tutorials:

Tools for Conducting a Review

OUWB Medical Library maintains a subscription to a tool -- Covidence -- that helps you manage the literature review by allowing you to import citations, conduct title and abstract screening, full text-screening, and data- extraction. The tool auto-generates data for the PRISMA diagrams of  systematic reviews.

  1. Covidence Signup -- You need to first join the subscription with your OU email.
  2. Covidence Login -- Once you have joined, you can log in to create and conduct reviews.

Video tutorials: